A
TREATISE
OF
PATIENCE
.
WRITTEN
BY
FATHER
FRANCIS
ARIAS
,
OF
THE
Society
of
Iesus
,
in
his
second
parte
of
the
Imitation
of
Christ
our
Lord
.
Translated
into
English
.
In
patientiâ
vestrâ
possidebitis
animas
vestras
.
In
your
Patience
you
shall
possesse
your
soules
.
christogram
IHS
With
permission
of
Superiours
,
Anno
1630.
THE
EPISTLE
DEDICATORY
.
To
the
right
honorable
and
most
noble
Lady
,
the
Lady
B.
A.
MADAM
In
the
translating
of
this
Treatise
of
Patience
,
I
haue
had
no
cause
to
exercise
Patience
,
for
I
dispatched
it
with
a
great
deale
of
gust
,
in
regard
that
I
was
commaunded
therein
by
your
Ladyship
;
the
expression
of
whose
will
giues
euer
occasion
of
much
ioy
to
mee
.
Now
therefore
,
since
,
vpon
the
matter
,
it
came
from
your
Ladyship
,
it
is
but
reason
that
it
returne
againe
;
though
it
must
not
be
without
the
interest
of
my
humblest
thankes
for
your
ministring
mee
so
faire
an
occasion
,
whereby
I
may
haue
seen
more
clearly
what
in
my selfe
I
ought
to
be
;
and
consequently
what
I
am
not
:
To
the
end
that
hereafter
,
if
I
growe
not
more
patient
,
yet
at
least
I
may
grow
more
humble
,
through
the
too
certaine
knowledge
of
my
great
defects
.
Your
Ladyship
,
I
assure
my selfe
,
will
be
pleased
to
looke
vpon
it
with
attention
;
especially
in
regard
of
what
it
is
in
it selfe
;
though
partly
also
,
because
it
is
a
poore
present
of
mine
And
I
shall
pray
our
good
God
,
with
whole
my
heart
,
that
you
also
may
be
much
the
better
by
it
,
in
thanking
his
diuine
Maiesty
,
for
that
which
you
shall
perceiue
him
to
haue
giuen
you
,
and
in
praying
him
hard
,
to
enrich
you
,
with
whatsoeuer
you
may
yet
finde
your selfe
in
this
vertue
to
want
.
And
if
his
holy
name
may
be
glorified
hereby
,
and
your
soule
and
mine
assisted
to
doe
him
the
better
seruice
,
it
is
that
very
reward
,
which
most
willingly
I
would
bestowe
vpon
my selfe
for
this
little
labour
,
though
I
had
all
power
in
mine
owne
hands
:
yours
Ladyships
,
I
most
humblie
kisse
,
and
doe
you
reuerence
,
with
the
hart
of
A
most
obliged
and
most
humble
seruant
euer
.
T.
M.
A
TABLE
OF
THE
CHAPTERS
.
-
THE
I.
CHAPTER
.
IN
what
the
vertue
of
Patience
consists
;
and
how
the
supernaturall
fauours
of
God
are
necessary
for
our
suffering
the
miseries
of
this
life
with
true
Patience
-
Chap.
2.
Of
the
euils
,
or
inconueniences
of
paine
which
Christ
our
Lord
beganne
to
suffer
euen
from
his
Conception
,
and
Birth
;
and
of
the
example
of
Patience
,
which
he
gaue
vs
therein
.
-
Chap.
3.
How
Christ
our
Lord
endured
the
company
of
the
wicked
,
and
of
the
example
of
Patience
,
which
he
gaue
vs
thereby
.
-
Chap.
4.
Of
the
euills
of
paine
,
which
Christ
our
Lord
suffered
in
his
Passion
;
and
of
the
example
of
Patience
,
which
he
gaue
vs
,
by
suffering
them
with
so
great
good
will
-
Chap.
5.
Of
the
Patience
,
desire
,
and
loue
,
wherwith
Christ
our
Lord
indured
all
those
torments
,
for
the
example
and
edification
of
our
soules
.
-
Chap.
6.
Of
the
Patience
wherwith
wee
ought
to
suffer
the
losse
of
temporall
goods
,
and
of
the
example
which
Christ
our
Lord
gaue
vs
herein
.
-
Chap.
7.
Of
the
Patience
,
wherwith
wee
are
to
endure
corporall
infirmities
;
and
of
the
example
,
which
Christ
our
Lord
hath
giuen
vs
herein
.
-
Chap.
8.
Of
the
other
great
benefits
,
which
are
drawen
from
corporall
infirmities
,
when
they
are
borne
with
Patience
.
-
Chap.
9.
Wherein
it
is
confirmed
,
by
the
example
of
Saints
,
how
great
the
fruite
of
sicknes
,
and
other
tribulation
is
;
and
how
this
is
an
effect
of
Gods
mercy
,
which
he
shewes
towards
his
friends
.
-
Chap.
10.
Of
the
fruite
of
the
encrease
of
Faith
,
and
Patience
,
which
wee
must
gather
from
the
Patience
,
which
the
Saints
haue
shewed
in
suffering
their
infirmities
and
paines
.
-
Chap.
11.
Of
the
Patience
wherwith
discomforts
,
and
spirituall
desolations
,
are
to
be
endured
;
and
of
the
example
which
Christ
our
Lord
gaue
hereof
.
-
Chap.
12.
Of
the
necessity
,
and
fruite
of
Patience
;
and
how
it
is
a
signe
of
the
election
and
predestination
of
God
.
-
Chap.
13.
How
pleasing
the
vertue
of
Patience
is
to
God
,
and
of
the
great
fauours
which
he
affoardes
them
,
who
suffer
with
Patience
.
-
Chap.
14.
Of
the
meanes
,
whereby
the
vertue
of
Patience
may
be
obtained
;
which
is
,
that
wee
be
watchfull
to
consider
the
fruite
thereof
,
and
the
examples
whereby
wee
haue
been
taught
it
by
Christ
our
Lord
.
-
Chap.
15.
Of
other
meanes
wherby
wee
are
to
obtaine
,
and
conserue
the
vertue
of
Patience
,
namely
to
consider
our
sinnes
,
and
to
resort
to
Almighty
God
,
for
the
remedy
thereof
.
A
prayer
for
obteining
Patience
of
Almighty
God
.
WHy
doe
I
complaine
,
ô
Lord
,
when
I
am
wronged
,
or
afflicted
vniustly
;
if
I
call
to
minde
how
grieuously
I
haue
offended
thee
;
how
often
I
haue
deserued
Hell
;
how
great
thy
mercy
is
,
appointing
me
to
suffer
light
temporall
punishment
in
this
life
,
wheras
I
haue
deserued
most
grieuous
and
euerlasting
torments
,
in
the
next
?
For
it
is
not
fitting
that
there
should
be
delicate
members
vnder
a
thorny
head
,
and
which
hath
been
most
cruelly
vsed
for
them
.
Why
should
I
complaine
,
if
I
doe
but
remember
,
that
for
suffering
patiently
for
a
time
these
present
labours
,
thy
mercy
will
confort
me
,
and
with
thine
owne
hand
thou
wilt
wipe
the
teares
from
mine
eyes
,
and
wilt
giue
rest
to
my
broken
and
afflicted
bones
;
and
that
thy
comfort
and
reward
will
be
according
to
the
measure
of
my
Patience
and
suffering
.
Let
therefore
whatsoeuer
aduersities
reine
downe
vpon
me
for
thy
sake
,
ô
Lord
;
so
that
thou
giue
me
strength
and
spirit
to
endure
them
:
because
that
,
without
the
helpe
of
thy
grace
,
the
weakenes
of
my
nature
would
faile
.
Make
me
,
ô
Lord
,
to
beare
all
false
iudgements
,
vaine
suspicious
,
slaunders
,
al
iniuries
couragiously
,
without
repining
,
without
complaining
,
without
excuses
,
without
any
interiour
feeling
of
them
,
and
without
any
exteriour
signe
:
and
let
my
soule
be
so
much
the
more
ioyed
and
delighted
within
it selfe
;
by
how
much
the
more
innocent
it
findeth
it selfe
,
and
free
from
the
fault
,
where
with
it
is
charged
Strengthen
my
soule
,
ô
Lord
,
with
the
knowledge
and
loue
of
thy
most
sacred
Passion
,
that
I
may
not
only
beare
present
aduersities
with
ioy
,
but
also
wish
them
when
they
are
absent
:
and
that
I
may
account
it
a
kinde
of
crosse
,
to
liue
and
dy
without
a
crosse
.
A
SHORT
TREATISE
OF
PATIENCE
WRITTEN
BY
Father
Francis
Arrias
in
the
second
part
of
his
booke
of
the
imitation
of
Christ
our
Lord
.
THE
I.
CHAPTER
.
In
What
the
vertue
of
Patience
consists
;
and
how
the
supernaturall
fauours
of
God
are
necessary
for
our
suffering
the
miseries
of
this
life
with
true
Patience
.
IT
belongs
to
the
vertue
of
true
Patience
,
to
suffer
all
those
thinges
,
which
are
aduerse
,
and
serue
for
the
punishment
of
man
in
this
mortal
life
,
with
a
heart
so
firm
,
and
constant
,
that
to
auoyd
and
fly
from
them
,
he
doe
nothing
which
is
faulty
,
and
contrary
to
the
will
of
Almighty
God
.
It
belongs
also
to
Patience
,
that
the
sorrow
which
naturally
is
raised
in
the
soule
of
man
,
by
the
approach
and
presence
of
miseries
,
be
moderated
and
subdued
in
such
sorte
,
as
that
it
may
doe
no
harme
to
the
same
soule
,
by
putting
it
into
disorder
and
by
making
it
swarue
from
the
right
line
of
reason
.
This
is
that
Patience
which
is
necessary
for
vs
,
and
to
which
wee
are
bound
by
expresse
commaundment
;
whereby
a
man
is
secured
from
committing
either
mortall
or
veniall
sinne
in
such
occasions
.
But
other
degrees
of
Patience
there
are
of
greater
perfection
,
which
belong
to
Counsaile
,
and
not
to
commaundment
,
whereof
wee
shall
speake
afterward
.
Saint
Gregory
the
Great
,
describes
this
Patience
,
which
is
necessary
for
vs
,
after
this
manner
.
Patience
consists
in
suffering
those
euills
of
punishment
,
which
happen
to
vs
by
the
will
of
others
,
with
a
moderate
and
equall
minde
;
and
in
that
a
man
dispose
not
himself
to
hurt
that
other
man
,
from
whom
it
comes
;
and
that
receiuing
the
scourges
of
paine
and
sorrow
,
and
other
tribulations
at
the
hand
of
God
,
he
complaine
not
,
&
murmure
not
against
him
.
And
declaring
elswhere
,
how
it
is
not
necessary
for
this
Patience
,
to
which
wee
are
bound
by
precept
,
to
quench
intirely
that
sorrow
and
grief
,
which
a
mind
receiues
through
the
euills
of
punishment
,
but
to
moderate
it
in
such
sorte
,
as
that
it
may
not
be
inordinate
and
hurtfull
,
he
saith
thus
;
Some
thinke
that
true
constancy
and
wisdome
,
consists
in
not
feeling
those
scourges
,
and
contradictions
,
which
come
to
vs
in
this
life
from
the
hand
of
God
;
and
others
haue
too
excessiue
sence
thereof
,
and
are
too
much
afflicted
and
dismaied
therby
;
but
the
true
vertue
of
Patience
,
and
true
wisdome
teaches
vs
to
hold
the
meane
between
those
two
Extremes
.
In
such
sorte
,
as
that
a
Christian
must
neither
be
of
a
stupid
heart
(
because
this
necessary
vertue
of
Patience
consists
not
,
in
that
a
man
feele
no
sorrow
for
his
aduersity
)
nor
yet
that
on
the
other
side
he
should
feele
so
much
dismay
&
griefe
as
to
make
him
passe
beyond
the
bounds
of
reason
.
For
if
he
exceed
therein
,
he
offends
against
the
vertue
of
Patience
.
And
because
it
happenes
sometimes
,
that
some
,
when
a
crosse
arriues
,
or
when
a
wrong
is
offered
,
doe
by
the
helpe
of
God
beare
it
well
at
that
time
;
and
yet
remembring
it
afterward
,
fall
either
into
sorrow
,
or
into
rage
,
with
impatience
against
him
who
offended
them
,
the
same
Saint
pronounces
thus
.
He
is
the
possessor
of
true
Patience
,
who
at
the
time
when
he
receiues
the
hurt
,
doth
beare
it
without
inordinate
grief
;
and
when
afterward
he
happenes
to
remember
it
,
reioyces
and
is
glad
that
he
endured
it
.
And
the
end
which
a
faithfull
Christian
is
to
hould
,
in
the
sufferance
of
these
punishments
,
and
in
vsing
this
moderation
,
and
in
putting
this
restraint
vpon
griefe
,
must
be
to
conforme
himselfe
to
the
good
pleasure
of
God
;
and
to
will
that
,
which
God
wills
.
For
the
will
of
God
is
,
that
a
man
should
vnder
goe
that
euill
of
punishment
,
by
whatsoeuer
way
it
come
to
him
;
whether
it
be
by
meanes
of
diuells
,
or
men
,
or
other
creatures
.
For
by
whatsoeuer
meanes
it
comes
,
God
is
the
first
Author
,
&
the
first
cause
from
whence
it
proceeds
;
and
so
his
pleasure
is
,
that
men
suffer
,
and
accept
well
thereof
,
as
growinge
to
them
from
his
hand
.
This
is
Saint
Paules
aduice
,
Heb.
10.
when
he
speakes
thus
to
his
faithfull
children
.
Because
you
are
encountred
with
so
many
crosses
,
which
assault
the
strength
of
your
hearts
,
you
haue
need
of
Patience
,
whereby
you
may
in
all
thinges
,
performe
the
will
of
God
,
and
yeeld
entire
obedience
to
his
comaundments
.
And
complying
after
this
manner
with
his
heauenly
will
,
you
shall
obtaine
those
most
high
and
eternall
benedictions
,
which
the
Diuine
Maiestie
hath
promised
to
such
as
keepe
his
lawe
.
Now
by
reason
that
mans
weaknes
,
after
the
fall
of
Adam
,
is
so
great
,
it
is
a
matter
of
much
difficulty
for
him
to
suffer
all
those
euils
of
punishment
,
which
happen
to
him
in
this
life
,
with
such
strength
of
minde
,
as
that
he
transgresse
not
the
bounds
of
reason
,
and
the
lawe
of
God
.
And
if
wee
consider
man
in
his
naturall
force
,
not
onely
is
this
hard
for
him
,
but
wholly
impossible
.
For
though
as
Saint
Thomas
saith
well
,
a
man
,
for
the
enioying
of
temporall
blessings
,
endure
euen
by
the
strength
of
nature
many
grieuous
thinges
,
because
the
naturall
loue
,
which
he
carries
to
himself
,
helpes
him
on
;
and
with
the
greater
naturall
loue
,
he
ouer
comes
another
loue
which
is
lesse
;
yet
to
obtaine
spirituall
and
eternall
blessings
,
wherein
consists
our
saluation
,
which
is
the
true
end
of
vertue
,
he
is
not
able
to
endure
them
.
For
a
naturall
loue
,
is
not
able
to
produce
this
effect
:
but
a
loue
supernaturall
,
and
grace
from
heauen
is
necessary
for
the
enduring
thereof
.
And
so
wee
see
,
that
the
Philosophers
and
wise
men
of
the
world
,
who
by
the
strayning
vpon
the
force
of
nature
,
did
professe
to
obtaine
the
true
vertue
of
Patience
,
were
able
indeed
to
reach
but
to
the
shadow
and
apparance
thereof
,
as
Saint
Cyprian
notes
in
these
wordes
.
I
finde
not
,
O
my
brethren
,
that
amongst
all
the
wayes
of
spirit
which
are
taught
vs
by
our
holy
Religion
,
any
one
of
them
is
more
vsefull
,
towards
the
obtayning
of
the
Kingdome
of
heauen
,
then
this
of
perfect
Patience
.
This
was
professed
by
the
Philosophers
;
but
as
the
wisdome
which
they
professed
was
for
the
most
part
not
sollid
,
and
true
;
so
neither
was
their
Patience
;
because
no
man
can
be
truly
wise
,
or
patient
,
who
knowes
not
the
wisdome
and
Patience
of
God
by
way
of
faith
.
This
is
the
discourse
of
S.
Cyprian
.
Now
therfore
,
since
the
weaknes
of
man
is
so
great
,
in
suffering
crosses
with
Patience
,
and
that
he
is
in
so
great
necessity
thereof
,
for
liuing
well
in
this
world
,
and
for
the
obreyning
of
heauen
in
the
next
;
it
pleased
Christ
our
Lord
,
to
prouide
vs
with
two
very
principall
and
efficacious
remedies
,
for
the
strengthening
of
our
weakenes
,
and
for
the
exalting
of
our
nature
;
in
such
sorte
,
as
that
it
might
obtayne
this
diuine
vertue
,
and
the
perfection
thereof
,
with
much
facility
.
One
of
these
meanes
,
is
the
example
of
his
most
holy
life
,
&
passion
,
wherby
we
may
be
animated
to
beare
crosses
with
Patience
;
and
the
other
are
those
supernaturall
helpes
,
and
succours
of
grace
,
which
he
deserued
for
vs
,
by
his
sufferings
.
Let
vs
therefore
goe
declaring
the
chief
examples
of
his
life
,
whereby
he
moues
,
and
perswades
vs
,
to
suffer
all
the
aduersities
,
paines
,
torments
&
contradictions
which
may
happen
to
vs
in
this
world
,
with
true
Patience
.
To
the
end
that
considering
them
at
good
leasure
,
and
with
true
feeling
and
spirit
,
wee
may
stirre
our selues
vp
to
an
effectuall
purpose
,
and
desire
to
beare
Crosses
.
And
so
also
,
by
a
liuely
faith
of
those
so
holy
and
blessed
Mysteries
,
&
by
the
the
meanes
of
humble
and
deuont
prayer
,
we
shall
obtaine
all
those
succours
of
grace
,
which
are
needfull
for
the
bearing
them
with
perfect
Patience
.
THE
II.
CHAPTER
.
Of
the
euils
or
inconueniences
of
payne
which
Christ
our
Lord
beganne
to
suffer
euen
from
his
Conception
,
and
Birth
;
and
of
the
example
of
Patience
,
which
he
gaue
vs
therein
.
THe
sonne
of
God
,
as
soon
as
he
was
borne
into
the
world
,
did
instantly
suffer
paine
and
sorrow
.
He
instantly
felt
the
paine
of
cold
,
for
he
was
born
in
winter
,
and
in
an
open
vndefended
place
.
And
for
as
much
as
the
body
of
the
infant
Iesus
,
was
extreamely
tender
,
&
delicate
,
in
regard
that
he
was
of
a
most
perfect
pure
complexion
,
he
felt
the
iniuries
and
incommodities
of
the
season
,
more
then
euer
any
other
infant
did
,
how
delicate
soeuer
he
might
be
.
Vpon
the
arriuall
of
the
seauenth
day
,
he
felt
the
grief
and
torment
of
Circumcision
,
which
was
extreame
.
For
if
they
,
who
were
growen
men
,
did
feele
it
much
,
because
the
paine
in
it selfe
was
great
,
as
also
for
that
they
had
reason
wherewith
to
vnderstand
it
;
how
much
more
must
the
infant
Iesus
feele
that
paine
;
who
,
with
being
of
so
delicate
constitution
,
had
also
the
vse
of
reason
in
perfection
.
And
this
paine
of
his
was
increased
in
him
,
because
the
Virgin
,
who
was
present
there
,
and
sawe
the
blood
and
teares
which
the
infant
shed
,
did
all
melt
with
grief
;
and
,
hauing
her
heart
full
of
a
most
dolorous
compassion
,
would
be
sure
to
sigh
,
and
shed
mournfull
teares
.
And
her
most
blessed
sonne
,
obseruing
the
sorrow
of
his
most
sacred
mother
,
whom
he
incomparably
loued
,
and
of
whose
sorrow
he
well
knew
how
great
it
was
,
had
much
pitty
of
her
;
and
that
pitty
caused
a
greater
wound
of
sorrow
in
his
soule
,
then
the
knife
had
made
in
his
body
.
This
sorrow
for
the
Circumcision
,
was
followed
,
at
the
end
of
little
more
then
thirty
daies
,
by
his
banishment
,
into
Aegypt
;
whither
the
way
was
very
long
,
and
very
painfull
:
and
tooke
vp
the
toyle
of
many
dayes
,
and
the
banishment
lasted
many
yeares
.
Another
immense
sorrow
,
●hich
Christ
our
Lord
endured
,
and
which
began
in
him
from
the
instant
of
his
Conception
,
and
continued
till
his
expiring
vpon
the
Crosse
,
was
that
which
was
caused
in
him
,
by
all
the
sinnes
of
the
whole
world
,
for
they
al
were
present
to
him
;
both
those
which
had
bene
committed
from
the
beginning
of
the
world
till
that
time
,
and
those
which
then
were
in
committing
;
and
those
also
which
would
be
committed
euentill
the
very
end
of
the
world
.
Now
the
man
who
loues
God
and
his
neighbours
in
great
measure
,
is
much
afflicted
by
offences
committed
against
God
,
and
by
the
losse
of
soules
:
and
so
much
more
as
a
man
loues
God
,
and
his
neighbours
,
so
much
more
is
the
offence
of
God
,
and
the
losse
of
soules
,
intollerable
to
him
.
So
saith
Saint
Peter
.
●
.
ep.
2.
c.
that
the
sinnes
of
the
Inhabitants
of
Sodom
,
did
grieuously
torment
the
soule
of
holy
Lot
,
day
and
night
.
Since
therfore
Christ
our
Lord
,
did
supremely
loue
the
glory
of
the
eternall
Father
,
and
the
saluation
of
soules
;
he
hauing
allwayes
present
to
him
,
so
many
sinnes
,
whereby
the
eternall
Father
was
affronted
,
and
soules
destroyed
and
condemned
;
that
most
sacred
soule
became
a
very
sea
of
immense
sorrowe
,
which
tormented
it
euer
day
&
night
without
either
cessation
,
or
moderation
.
Another
most
greiuous
torment
which
Christ
our
Lord
was
pleased
to
suffer
for
vs
,
was
to
be
tempted
by
the
diuell
in
the
desart
.
For
to
be
tempted
,
is
to
be
prouoked
,
and
solicited
to
sin
;
which
is
a
thing
most
vgly
and
to
be
abhorred
.
And
this
was
not
onely
a
vast
affront
to
him
,
by
meanes
whereof
he
exercised
Humility
(
as
we
haue
declared
elswhere
;
)
but
it
was
also
an
excessiue
grief
to
him
,
by
occasion
whereof
he
exercised
Patience
.
For
if
some
most
chast
virgin
who
were
a
great
louer
of
purity
,
and
a
great
detester
of
all
dishonesty
,
being
seen
alone
by
some
filthy
person
,
&
being
solicited
by
his
speech
to
commit
vncleannes
,
would
feele
more
offence
,
and
paine
therby
,
then
if
they
should
beate
her
with
cudgells
,
or
dragg
her
by
the
haire
,
through
the
streetes
;
much
more
would
Christ
our
Lord
,
who
did
supremely
loue
the
will
,
and
glory
of
his
eternall
Father
,
and
who
deeply
detested
all
kinde
of
sinne
,
finde
it
for
an
incomparable
kinde
of
torment
,
and
feele
it
more
then
many
of
the
torments
of
his
very
Passion
,
to
see
himself
solicited
,
and
prouoked
by
the
diuell
,
to
affront
his
Father
,
and
to
commit
so
wicked
,
and
so
abhominable
a
thing
,
as
sinne
is
.
This
torment
was
accompanyed
by
another
,
which
was
to
be
carryed
by
the
diuell
from
the
desart
to
the
pinacle
of
the
Temple
;
and
from
thence
to
the
top
of
the
mountaine
.
Which
,
whether
it
were
,
that
he
were
taken
vp
,
&
carryed
in
the
ayre
,
as
some
of
the
Saints
vnderstand
it
:
or
that
the
diuel
guided
him
,
like
one
who
would
lead
another
by
the
hand
,
as
other
holy
writers
haue
conceaued
,
the
diuell
being
so
wicked
,
and
so
deformed
a
creature
,
and
Christ
our
Lord
seeing
so
cleerly
that
malice
and
deformity
of
his
,
and
yet
to
be
so
long
so
neer
him
,
and
to
be
touched
or
carryed
by
him
,
must
needes
be
of
so
excessiue
paine
to
him
,
as
to
equall
many
torments
of
his
Passion
.
And
so
doth
Saint
Gregory
compare
it
saying
;
when
wee
heare
them
tell
,
that
Christ
our
Lord
,
being
true
God
and
man
,
was
carryed
by
the
diuell
to
the
Citty
of
Ierusalem
,
it
causeth
horrour
and
amazement
in
such
as
heare
it
.
But
yet
it
is
no
wonder
,
that
he
should
suffer
himselfe
to
be
carryed
by
the
deuill
,
who
is
the
head
of
wickednes
;
since
he
was
pleased
to
be
crucified
by
the
members
of
the
same
diuel
.
This
is
the
saying
of
S.
Gregory
;
whereby
he
signifies
,
that
the
torment
to
haue
bene
carryed
by
that
infernall
beast
the
diuell
,
imports
a
kind
of
a
resemblance
to
that
other
torment
,
of
his
hauing
bene
crucified
by
sinners
;
and
so
doubtles
it
was
a
most
greiuous
affliction
to
the
soule
of
Christ
our
Lord
.
All
those
crosses
and
contradictions
,
which
Christ
our
Lord
suffered
,
through
the
whole
course
of
his
preaching
;
the
iniury
of
ill
wordes
;
the
deeds
of
persecution
which
were
cast
vpon
him
;
the
slaunders
,
false
testimonies
,
the
attempt
to
breake
his
necke
downe
the
hill
in
Nazareth
,
and
to
stone
him
many
times
in
Ierusalem
,
belong
to
the
vertue
of
Humility
,
in
as
much
as
they
carryed
disgrace
and
contempt
with
them
;
but
for
him
to
haue
made
choice
,
and
to
haue
imbraced
them
,
in
regard
that
they
were
painfull
,
and
dolorous
to
his
heart
;
and
to
indure
them
as
such
,
belonges
to
the
vertue
of
Patience
.
And
Christ
our
Lord
indured
them
with
so
extreeme
Patience
,
that
whereas
he
might
most
iustly
haue
taken
vengeance
of
his
enemies
,
for
euery
one
of
those
paines
in
particuler
;
and
might
instantly
haue
deliuered
them
ouer
to
the
furie
of
hell
,
there
to
suffer
that
torment
,
which
they
deserued
;
or
els
might
haue
annihilated
them
,
by
taking
off
his
hand
of
protection
and
preseruation
from
them
;
yet
he
would
not
doe
them
any
hurt
at
all
,
not
gaue
he
to
them
by
way
of
answere
,
any
word
,
which
might
be
so
seuere
or
sharpe
,
as
might
occasion
the
least
disgust
to
them
;
but
he
conserued
them
in
being
and
life
,
and
he
gaue
them
holy
inspirations
;
and
all
the
actions
,
which
he
performed
,
and
all
the
wordes
,
which
he
vttered
,
were
ordayned
to
make
them
doe
penance
,
&
that
they
might
not
be
lost
and
damned
,
but
become
saued
soules
in
heauen
.
At
that
time
did
he
endure
the
society
,
and
the
sinnes
of
that
miserable
Iudas
,
with
vnspeakable
Patience
.
Our
Lord
perceiued
well
,
the
malice
and
ingratitude
of
his
hart
;
the
thefts
which
he
committed
vpon
the
almes
,
which
was
deliuered
to
his
care
;
&
that
trechery
,
wherwith
he
knew
he
would
sell
him
ouer
to
his
enemies
;
and
yet
did
he
not
cast
him
out
of
his
company
,
nor
did
he
depriue
him
of
the
dignity
and
authority
of
his
Apostolate
,
wherof
he
had
made
himselfe
so
vnworthy
;
nor
spake
he
any
word
of
affront
to
him
,
nor
shewed
him
any
offended
or
vntoward
countenance
,
but
he
affoarded
him
al
those
common
benefits
and
fauours
,
which
be
imparted
to
the
rest
of
his
Apostles
.
By
these
examples
of
Patience
,
which
our
Lord
gaue
vs
in
the
time
of
his
life
,
and
course
of
his
preaching
,
he
taught
and
perswaded
vs
to
haue
Patience
;
whereby
wee
are
to
suffer
all
the
crosses
and
contradictions
of
this
life
;
and
all
the
persecutions
,
oppressions
,
and
iniuries
of
men
;
not
giuing
place
,
nor
so
much
as
entry
into
our
harts
,
to
ill
will
,
or
hatred
against
any
man
;
nor
for
complaints
or
murmuring
either
against
God
,
or
man
;
nor
yet
to
any
inordinate
grief
:
but
suffering
them
with
a
moderate
,
firme
&
constant
minde
,
which
swarues
not
from
the
rectitude
and
rule
of
vertue
;
and
is
desirous
,
that
in
all
thinges
the
will
of
God
may
be
fulfilled
.
So
saith
Saint
Cyprian
,
most
excellently
describing
the
example
of
the
Patience
of
Christ
our
Lord
,
by
these
wordes
.
What
glory
is
so
great
,
as
that
a
man
may
become
like
God
,
in
the
exercise
of
Patience
,
enduring
the
inconueniences
of
this
life
,
and
the
iniuries
of
men
,
as
God
doth
long
endure
the
offences
which
sinners
commit
against
him
.
Which
Patience
,
Iesus-Christ
our
Lord
did
teach
vs
,
as
he
was
man
;
not
onely
by
word
,
but
by
deed
also
.
For
he
said
,
he
came
into
the
world
to
worke
the
will
of
his
father
.
And
amongst
those
other
admirable
vertues
,
whereby
he
discouered
to
vs
the
power
of
his
diuinity
;
one
was
,
the
Patience
whereby
he
imitated
his
eternall
Father
;
and
so
all
those
thinges
which
he
did
,
from
the
time
when
he
was
borne
with
mortall
flesh
into
this
world
,
did
carry
the
seale
and
stampe
of
Patience
vpon
them
.
For
he
tooke
on
him
,
as
hath
been
said
,
the
waight
of
all
the
sinnes
of
men
,
that
he
might
pay
by
suffering
for
them
.
He
was
tempted
by
the
enemy
;
and
yet
he
did
him
noe
hurt
for
it
:
but
was
onely
content
to
ouercome
him
.
He
endured
the
horrible
wickednes
of
Iudas
,
with
a
Patience
so
large
,
as
lasted
till
the
end
of
his
life
.
He
endured
the
Iewes
who
were
incredulous
,
vngratefull
,
proud
,
rebellious
,
and
contrary
both
to
his
doctrine
,
and
to
his
example
.
And
he
indured
them
in
such
sorte
,
as
to
heape
benefits
vpon
them
;
and
to
treate
them
with
meekenes
,
and
to
receiue
such
of
them
to
his
fauour
and
friendship
,
as
would
be
conuerted
to
him
.
What
greater
Patience
,
and
what
greater
clemency
can
be
conceiued
,
then
by
meanes
of
shedding
his
blood
to
purchase
,
and
to
impart
a
life
of
grace
and
glory
to
them
,
who
through
hatred
,
and
by
most
wicked
meanes
,
tooke
a
course
to
spill
that
very
blood
?
And
since
wee
are
the
members
and
disciples
of
Christ
our
Lord
,
who
is
the
way
of
saluation
and
life
it selfe
,
it
will
become
vs
to
follow
his
example
.
These
ar
the
wordes
of
Saint
Cyprian
.
THE
III.
CHAPTER
.
How
Christ
our
Lord
endured
the
company
of
the
wicked
,
and
of
the
example
of
Patience
,
which
he
gaue
vs
thereby
.
ONe
of
the
thinges
which
good
men
finde
most
difficulty
to
endure
,
in
this
life
,
is
the
society
and
conuersation
of
wicked
men
,
whilest
they
continue
in
their
wickednes
.
For
in
regard
that
they
abhorre
sinne
so
much
,
and
haue
such
feeling
of
the
offences
,
which
are
committed
against
God
,
and
of
the
losse
and
damnation
of
soules
;
for
them
to
see
those
offences
before
their
eyes
,
and
to
obserue
their
neighbours
to
lie
vnder
the
wrath
of
God
,
condemned
and
lost
,
according
to
the
state
of
present
iustice
,
&
yet
not
feeling
their
own
misery
,
by
reason
of
the
great
blindenes
and
obstinacy
,
wherein
they
are
;
and
to
see
withall
,
that
they
can
prouide
no
remedy
for
this
so
great
mischiefe
,
nor
giue
any
impediment
to
these
offences
against
God
,
and
to
this
losse
of
soules
;
they
receiue
,
I
say
,
herby
intollerable
paine
;
and
carry
their
hearts
euen
transpersed
from
side
to
side
with
the
sword
of
sorrow
;
and
haue
extreame
desires
to
depart
out
of
the
society
&
conuersation
of
such
sinners
,
and
to
be
still
remayning
farr
from
them
.
And
in
regard
this
misery
happens
sometimes
to
good
men
,
because
sometimes
the
wicked
are
such
persons
,
as
whose
company
they
cannot
leaue
,
because
they
are
either
sonnes
,
or
parents
,
or
brothers
,
or
husband
,
or
wife
,
or
their
gouernours
,
or
seruaunts
of
the
same
Lord
,
or
subiects
of
the
same
Prelate
,
their
paine
&
grief
doth
extreamly
increase
vpon
this
occasion
.
Now
how
vehement
this
torment
is
,
for
good
men
to
endure
;
and
how
great
desire
they
haue
,
for
as
much
as
may
concerne
themselues
,
to
depart
out
of
their
company
,
Christ
our
Lord
himself
,
did
once
declare
in
waightie
wordes
.
Matt.
17.
Marc
9.
When
he
descended
from
the
Mount
Thabor
,
he
came
to
those
troopes
of
people
,
which
were
expecting
him
,
and
he
found
his
disciples
much
afflicted
and
confounded
,
in
that
men
had
brought
one
to
them
,
who
was
both
a
possessed
&
a
lunaticke
person
,
whom
they
were
not
able
to
cure
.
And
by
occasion
thereof
the
Scribes
and
Pharisees
,
who
were
present
,
reproached
them
,
as
wanting
vertue
from
heauen
to
send
deuills
out
,
and
they
affirmed
that
their
Master
did
it
in
the
power
of
Belzebub
.
Saint
Marke
signifies
thus
much
,
by
saying
that
Christ
our
Lord
found
the
Scribes
in
debate
,
and
argument
with
his
disciples
.
And
then
our
Lord
said
to
them
;
O
you
incredulous
and
rebellious
generation
,
how
long
shall
I
remaine
,
&
conuerse
amongst
you
,
how
long
shall
I
expect
you
,
and
endure
your
obstinacy
&
malice
.
By
these
wordes
did
Christ
our
Lord
declare
the
trouble
which
the
wickednes
and
conuersation
with
vitious
persons
,
who
would
not
be
conuerted
and
hindered
the
conuersion
of
others
,
did
put
him
to
,
and
that
he
felt
that
paine
more
then
death
it selfe
.
So
saith
Saint
Chrisostome
.
Our
Lord
signified
by
this
,
that
he
euen
desired
death
,
and
that
his
Passion
was
not
to
be
troublesom
,
or
grieuous
to
him
;
but
that
the
thing
whereof
he
was
most
sensible
,
and
which
afflicted
him
most
,
was
to
conuerse
with
rebellious
sinners
,
who
made
resistance
to
the
truth
;
and
vpon
whom
he
sawe
,
that
the
fruite
both
of
his
life
,
and
death
would
be
lost
.
Now
as
this
was
an
immense
torment
to
Christ
our
Lord
,
so
is
it
very
grieuous
to
be
endured
by
vertuous
men
.
But
that
which
they
are
to
doe
,
for
suffering
it
with
that
Patience
which
is
fit
,
and
for
gathering
from
thence
,
that
fruite
of
merits
which
God
desires
,
is
this
:
To
distinguish
on
the
one
side
,
by
the
vse
of
reason
between
that
which
is
the
fault
of
others
,
and
the
losse
of
soules
,
and
the
offence
of
God
;
and
that
on
the
other
side
,
which
is
their
owne
affliction
,
and
paine
;
and
then
to
be
afflicted
for
those
sinnes
,
for
asmuch
as
they
imply
the
offence
of
God
,
and
withal
to
be
sory
for
the
losse
,
which
soules
receiue
thereby
,
and
to
make
instant
prayer
to
God
for
them
;
and
as
for
the
paine
and
torment
,
which
results
thereby
vpon
them
selues
,
to
accept
it
at
the
hands
of
almighty
God
,
and
willingly
,
to
be
content
to
suffer
it
,
during
all
that
time
,
which
God
shal
thinke
fit
not
to
take
them
out
of
that
company
,
and
conuersation
of
the
wicked
.
By
this
meanes
,
that
company
of
the
wicked
,
will
be
a
diuine
Purgatory
to
them
;
which
may
clense
their
soules
both
from
sinnes
,
and
the
punishments
due
thereunto
;
and
a
way
of
exercising
chatity
and
humility
,
and
patience
,
which
ar
of
so
great
worth
and
merit
,
and
so
very
acceptable
in
the
sight
of
God
.
And
to
animate
them
to
suffer
this
punishment
with
this
Patience
,
they
are
to
consider
those
examples
of
Christ
our
Lord
,
wherof
wee
haue
spoken
;
which
are
,
the
immense
and
continuall
torment
which
he
felt
in
behoulding
all
the
sinnes
of
mankinde
;
and
that
which
he
felt
in
being
carryed
by
the
diuell
to
Ierusalem
,
and
to
the
Mount
;
&
that
which
he
receiued
by
his
conuersation
with
the
Iewes
,
who
continued
rebellious
in
their
infidelity
;
and
that
particularly
,
which
he
receiued
by
keeping
Iudas
in
his
company
,
and
in
the
Colledge
of
his
Apostles
.
For
to
this
end
it
was
,
that
he
chose
that
miserable
creature
for
an
Apostle
;
as
well
knowing
how
wicked
he
was
to
be
;
and
for
this
,
after
he
was
peruerted
,
did
he
continue
him
in
his
owne
company
;
and
he
tolerated
him
,
to
the
end
that
by
this
example
they
might
seriouslie
endeauour
to
endure
those
wicked
and
peruerse
people
with
Patience
,
whom
they
might
chaunce
to
haue
in
their
neighbourhood
,
their
house
,
their
family
and
their
society
.
So
doth
Saint
Augustine
aduise
vs
saying
.
Christ
our
Lord
had
one
amongst
his
Apostles
,
who
was
wicked
;
and
he
serued
himselfe
well
of
that
wickednes
.
First
,
by
complying
with
that
eternall
ordination
of
God
concerning
his
Passion
;
and
secondly
to
giue
an
example
to
the
world
,
of
the
Patience
wherwith
they
were
to
endure
wicked
men
.
Let
vs
therefore
animate
our
felues
,
by
these
examples
of
Christ
our
God
and
Sauiour
,
to
suffer
with
a
good
will
,
and
a
constant
minde
,
whatsoeuer
troubles
,
contradictions
,
and
crosses
may
grow
to
vs
,
by
our
neighbours
,
our
domesticks
,
and
our
familiar
freinds
.
Let
vs
consider
and
ponder
well
,
what
Christ
our
Lord
endured
at
the
hands
of
sinners
,
for
the
loue
of
vs
;
and
how
he
hath
endured
our
very
selues
,
dissembling
our
sinnes
,
when
we
deserued
hell
for
committing
them
;
bestowing
benefits
on
vs
,
when
wee
committed
offences
against
him
;
imparting
mercies
to
vs
,
when
wee
did
him
wronges
;
cryinge
out
,
and
drawing
vs
to
him
,
and
conuerting
vs
by
his
grace
,
when
we
had
departed
from
him
,
and
were
fled
out
of
his
house
,
and
were
making
warre
against
his
Law
.
This
Patience
of
Christ
our
Lord
,
wherwith
as
God
he
endures
all
sinners
,
&
hath
endured
our selues
;
and
,
as
man
,
endured
those
wicked
people
with
whom
he
conuerst
in
this
world
,
must
induce
and
strengthen
vs
much
,
in
the
way
of
sufferance
.
Great
(
saith
Saint
Ambrose
)
is
the
Patience
of
God
,
in
not
instantlie
punishing
sinners
,
but
in
suffering
them
for
sometime
,
till
they
may
be
conuerted
.
And
in
another
place
;
If
our
Lord
,
our
God
,
and
Sauiour
Iesus
Christ
,
who
with
one
single
word
could
haue
cast
his
enemies
into
the
most
profound
pit
of
hell
,
did
yet
endure
them
with
Patience
,
why
should
not
miserable
men
,
who
are
full
of
sinnes
endure
them
also
with
Patience
,
when
in
this
life
they
receiue
paine
and
trouble
from
other
men
,
by
whose
meanes
they
are
corrected
,
and
punished
by
Almighty
God
for
their
sinnes
?
This
is
the
discourse
of
Saint
Ambrose
.
Let
vs
therefore
giue
this
glory
to
God
,
that
for
his
loue
wee
may
endure
all
euills
of
punishment
;
Let
vs
yeeld
this
honour
a
d
giue
this
gust
to
Christ
our
Sauiour
,
in
that
,
to
imitate
him
,
wee
may
haue
occasion
to
suffer
all
the
iniuries
,
and
contradictions
of
men
.
Let
vs
bestow
this
benefit
vpon
our
owne
soules
in
wiping
away
our
sinnes
by
exercising
this
vertue
of
Patience
;
and
let
vs
fill
it
full
of
comforts
,
and
merits
.
For
,
as
Ecclesiasticus
chap.
1.
saith
,
the
Patient
man
suffers
onely
during
a
time
which
is
limited
;
and
afterward
,
for
his
hauing
suffered
,
Almighty
God
giues
him
true
ioy
,
which
springes
from
that
grace
which
at
the
present
he
receiues
,
and
from
that
hope
of
glory
,
wherewith
he
is
to
be
indowed
afterward
.
THE
IV.
CHAPTER
.
Of
the
euils
of
paine
,
which
Christ
our
Lord
suffered
in
his
Passion
;
and
of
the
example
of
Patience
,
which
he
gaue
vs
,
by
suffering
them
with
so
great
good
will
.
THe
chief
examples
of
Patience
,
which
Christ
our
Lord
gaue
vs
,
were
of
his
most
sacred
Passion
,
by
reason
of
the
many
,
and
various
kindes
of
sorrowes
,
and
tormentes
which
he
suffered
therein
,
with
vnspeakeable
Patience
:
and
wee
will
declare
these
torments
,
and
the
Patience
wherwith
he
suffered
them
;
for
the
edification
of
our
soules
;
and
particularly
that
wee
may
learne
to
suffer
all
the
miseries
of
this
life
with
Patience
.
When
they
apprehended
our
Lord
(
he
giuing
them
leaue
to
put
the
malice
and
fury
of
their
wrathed
harts
in
execution
)
the
torments
were
many
,
and
very
grieuous
which
they
gaue
him
,
with
their
hands
,
and
feet
,
by
cudgells
,
and
irons
,
and
other
instruments
,
which
they
had
,
and
vsed
throughout
that
whole
way
,
till
they
came
to
the
house
of
Annas
.
For
if
,
after
they
had
imployed
vpon
his
person
,
so
many
and
most
cruell
kindes
of
torment
,
through
all
that
night
,
and
so
much
of
the
next
day
,
till
they
nailed
him
fast
to
the
crosse
,
they
yet
were
not
satisfied
at
all
;
but
after
they
had
crucified
him
,
they
did
yet
continue
to
persecute
him
,
with
their
viperous
tongues
;
and
after
they
had
fetched
all
the
blood
out
of
his
vaines
,
together
with
his
life
,
they
would
needes
open
his
side
,
and
fetch
the
blood
forth
from
his
very
heart
;
what
is
to
be
thought
,
that
they
would
doe
in
that
furious
onset
,
when
first
they
began
to
exercise
their
cruelty
vpon
him
,
and
to
streame
out
their
deadly
poison
against
him
,
which
had
lyen
for
so
long
time
horded
vp
in
their
malitious
heartes
?
In
the
house
of
Caiphas
,
the
High
Priest
,
when
Christ
our
Lord
had
confessed
who
he
was
,
and
when
all
the
Iudges
had
condemned
him
as
a
blasphemous
person
,
and
worthy
death
;
the
soldiers
&
Ministers
of
iustice
,
together
with
the
seruants
of
the
Priests
in
whose
power
he
was
,
rushed
in
vpon
him
with
extreame
cruelty
,
and
most
grieuously
tormented
him
,
with
buffers
,
blowes
,
and
spitting
on
him
;
and
they
went
continuing
,
and
augmenting
those
torments
,
throughout
that
whole
night
,
with
many
inuentions
,
all
full
of
cruelty
&
hellish
fury
.
And
some
holy
men
,
to
whom
God
hath
reuealed
many
secrets
of
his
life
&
death
,
haue
said
,
that
in
that
night
,
our
most
blessed
Lord
was
stroken
foure
hundred
times
,
with
hard
buffets
,
and
cruell
blowes
,
vpon
his
face
and
necke
,
and
all
the
rest
of
the
parts
of
his
most
blessed
body
.
This
passed
in
the
house
of
the
High
Priest
;
and
now
let
vs
see
,
what
torments
he
suffered
in
the
house
of
Pilate
.
The
first
was
,
to
be
bound
to
a
pillar
,
and
there
to
be
most
cruelly
scourged
.
What
extreame
paine
must
it
be
,
for
him
to
be
tyed
so
forcibly
to
a
pillar
,
that
the
cordes
and
ropes
would
be
entering
so
deep
into
his
delicate
flesh
,
as
to
make
the
blood
euen
breake
forth
?
What
torment
,
nay
what
flood
of
torments
,
would
it
be
,
for
him
to
be
scourged
after
that
manner
.
For
the
whippes
;
wherewith
they
did
it
,
were
most
cruell
,
consisting
of
sharpe
rods
,
and
biting
cords
,
which
(
as
many
affirme
)
had
hookes
and
spurres
of
iron
at
the
ends
thereof
.
The
executioners
were
strong
,
fierce
&
many
;
who
yet
changed
by
turnes
;
and
all
were
full
of
mortall
hate
and
spite
against
our
Lord
.
His
sacred
flesh
was
most
tender
,
and
most
delicate
,
and
all
framed
of
the
blood
of
that
most
pure
Virgin
.
The
imaginatiue
parte
of
Christ
our
Lord
did
perceiue
euerye
one
of
those
scourges
,
which
they
gaue
him
,
after
a
most
distinct
and
perfect
manner
.
In
other
men
,
the
feeling
of
a
deeper
paine
or
grief
doth
astonish
the
imagination
;
&
so
they
haue
no
feeling
of
other
lesser
paines
:
and
therefore
it
happens
,
that
some
man
may
haue
his
very
skull
parted
,
and
his
body
thrust
through
,
and
yet
not
feele
the
paine
;
by
hauing
his
imagination
so
much
imployed
,
and
discomposed
by
his
inward
Passion
and
rage
.
But
in
Christ
our
Lord
it
was
not
so
:
for
he
had
his
imagination
,
and
the
apprehension
of
his
soule
so
perfectly
bent
vpon
euery
particular
paine
,
which
he
felt
,
as
if
he
had
onely
felt
that
single
paine
;
&
the
sence
and
apprehension
of
one
paine
,
did
not
hinder
his
feeling
of
any
other
.
And
this
proceeded
from
the
great
perfection
which
he
had
in
all
the
powers
and
sences
,
both
of
his
sacred
body
,
and
soule
.
Those
scourges
being
so
cruell
,
and
those
executioners
being
so
able
and
strong
,
and
his
sence
of
the
paine
so
perfect
,
there
was
besides
,
so
great
multitude
of
strokes
,
and
blowes
,
which
he
receiued
,
that
some
holy
men
affirme
,
that
those
which
were
inflicted
vpon
him
at
the
pillar
,
did
passe
the
number
of
fiue
thousand
.
And
not
onely
did
they
scourge
his
backe
,
but
after
they
had
drest
that
in
such
a
fashion
,
that
there
was
nothing
to
be
seen
but
wounds
and
blood
,
they
vntyed
him
first
,
and
then
tyed
him
againe
,
with
his
backe
turned
towards
the
pillar
;
and
scourged
him
the
second
time
,
with
the
same
cruelty
,
vpon
the
belly
,
brest
,
face
,
&
all
the
other
parts
,
which
were
discouered
;
in
such
sorte
,
as
that
the
whole
most
holy
body
of
Christ
our
Lord
,
was
flead
,
and
plowed
ouer
,
into
such
furrowes
,
as
discouered
the
very
bones
.
And
he
who
had
bene
the
most
beautifull
of
all
those
men
whom
God
euer
made
,
remained
so
disfigured
,
and
deformed
,
that
it
was
euen
a
horrour
to
behould
him
.
So
saith
Saint
Augustine
.
The
force
of
those
cruell
scourges
being
renewed
so
many
times
,
did
breake
the
skin
,
and
discouered
the
very
flesh
of
the
most
blessed
body
of
Christ
our
Lord
.
That
torment
of
his
scourging
was
followed
by
that
other
torment
of
the
crowne
of
thornes
.
For
those
Pagan
soldiers
,
to
please
the
chiefe
of
the
Iewes
,
and
(
as
Saint
Chrisostome
saith
)
for
the
interest
of
that
money
,
which
was
giuen
them
to
the
end
that
they
might
be
the
more
cruel
towards
him
,
tooke
our
Lord
into
their
power
,
who
was
already
wounded
,
and
as
it
were
euen
all
opened
by
those
scourges
;
and
then
they
placed
him
all
tremblinge
with
cold
,
in
the
Court
of
Pilates
house
;
and
in
that
publike
Theatre
,
in
the
sight
of
all
that
people
,
they
stript
him
againe
of
his
owne
cloathes
;
and
they
put
an
old
purple
vest
vpon
him
for
scorne
;
and
vpon
his
head
a
crowne
of
thornes
.
This
act
of
theirs
,
besides
that
it
was
of
extreame
affront
(
as
we
haue
already
shewed
,
)
was
also
most
painful
to
him
:
for
the
thornes
,
whereof
the
crowne
was
wouen
,
were
extreame
heard
and
sharpe
;
and
they
enuironed
his
whole
head
,
and
temples
;
and
they
passed
and
penetrated
them
,
euen
to
the
veines
,
nerues
and
bones
;
&
made
his
sacred
blood
,
streame
downe
ouer
his
face
,
his
necke
and
his
haire
.
The
sacred
head
of
Christ
our
Lord
had
in
all
that
day
,
&
the
night
before
,
receiued
innumerable
blowes
,
&
woundes
;
sometimes
with
cudgells
,
other
times
with
irons
,
sometimes
with
swordes
,
other
times
with
gauntlets
,
and
often
with
the
fists
;
and
by
this
meanes
it
was
so
battered
,
that
whatsoeuer
touched
it
,
caused
excesse
of
paine
being
then
such
already
,
and
then
instantly
placing
a
crowne
of
thornes
vpon
it
,
so
cruel
as
this
,
whereof
wee
haue
spoken
;
what
excessiue
paine
,
or
rather
torment
,
would
it
be
sure
to
cause
?
And
to
this
it
may
be
added
;
that
the
paine
and
torment
which
the
crowne
of
thornes
caused
;
had
no
intermission
like
those
others
,
which
either
were
soone
ended
or
much
diminished
,
but
it
still
continued
,
and
lasted
euen
till
his
very
death
.
For
he
euer
had
it
on
,
and
the
thornes
serued
to
nayle
it
to
his
head
;
and
if
at
any
time
they
tooke
it
off
,
either
to
cloath
,
or
strip
him
,
they
instantly
put
it
on
againe
.
And
not
only
did
these
sorrowes
last
till
his
death
,
but
they
encreased
much
.
For
,
euery
time
when
they
stroke
his
head
,
either
with
the
cane
,
or
any
other
instrument
of
paine
;
and
euery
time
when
the
crowne
did
by
chaunce
stirre
of
it selfe
,
that
paine
renewed
,
and
encreased
.
Another
principall
torment
,
which
followed
vpon
this
,
was
to
lay
the
Crosse
vpon
his
backe
,
that
so
he
might
carry
it
to
the
place
,
where
he
was
to
be
crucified
.
This
torment
,
was
extreamly
grieuous
;
for
that
the
Crosse
was
very
heauy
,
and
contayned
,
as
holy
men
obserue
,
fifteene
feet
in
length
.
Our
Lord
was
all
worne
,
and
wounded
,
euen
to
his
bowells
;
his
strength
was
vtterly
consumed
;
and
his
shoulders
vpon
which
the
waight
was
laid
,
were
flead
.
And
now
,
if
the
onely
touching
of
such
a
parte
,
with
the
hand
,
doth
put
a
man
to
great
grief
and
paine
,
what
paine
and
grief
would
it
cause
to
our
Lord
to
lay
so
heauy
a
waight
vpon
a
body
so
wearyed
,
and
so
wounded
?
And
for
as
much
as
the
Crosse
was
longe
,
and
would
be
dragging
vpon
the
ground
,
by
meeting
with
stones
in
the
way
and
stirring
by
that
meanes
vpon
his
shoulders
his
paine
and
grief
would
be
encreased
.
In
this
sorte
went
our
Lord
,
with
great
sorrow
and
paine
,
all
that
long
way
from
Pilates
house
to
Mount
Caluary
,
which
consisted
of
one
thousand
eight
hundred
and
seauenty
two
paces
.
And
because
our
Lord
would
worke
no
miracle
,
in
carrying
the
waight
of
that
Crosse
;
but
giue
leaue
that
nature
might
suffer
as
much
,
as
possibly
it
could
;
therefore
,
when
he
had
dispatched
a
good
part
of
the
way
,
he
grew
to
faint
,
and
fall
downe
vnder
the
burden
.
And
the
prime
men
of
the
Iewes
,
conceiuing
that
there
might
be
danger
,
least
he
should
dy
amongst
them
in
the
way
,
gaue
him
Simon
Cyrenaeus
for
a
companion
,
who
might
helpe
him
to
beare
the
Crosse
:
&
so
the
assistence
,
which
they
affoarded
him
,
grew
not
from
clemency
in
them
,
but
from
a
desire
to
impose
greater
torments
vpon
him
,
by
his
dying
,
not
there
in
the
way
,
but
on
the
Crosse
it selfe
.
The
sorrowes
and
torments
of
that
way
being
past
,
and
he
being
then
arriued
at
Mount
Caluary
,
they
began
to
giue
him
new
torments
.
One
was
;
that
they
stript
him
,
by
taking
his
owne
cloathes
away
,
so
to
put
him
naked
vpon
the
Crosse
.
Now
this
was
a
most
painfull
thing
to
our
Lord
;
because
his
cloathes
stucke
fast
to
his
wounds
,
by
the
meanes
of
baked
and
congealed
blood
;
and
whensoeuer
they
tooke
them
off
with
violence
,
they
still
opened
the
wounds
againe
,
they
flead
his
body
,
and
renewed
all
his
former
paines
.
To
this
was
added
that
other
torment
,
which
the
cold
ayre
caused
:
for
that
penetrated
into
his
body
,
vpon
the
opening
of
his
flesh
,
&
made
him
all
quake
and
tremble
,
through
the
much
cold
he
felt
;
and
this
torment
lasted
till
he
expired
.
The
other
torments
which
followed
vpon
his
nakednes
were
these
.
The
soldiers
tooke
that
most
holy
body
,
with
extreame
fury
,
and
spred
it
forcibly
vpon
the
Crosse
;
&
applying
his
backe
to
the
wood
,
and
extending
his
armes
and
feet
at
length
,
they
beganne
to
nayle
one
of
his
hands
;
and
the
nayle
being
great
,
and
not
very
sharpe
,
it
carryed
before
it
through
the
hole
,
both
of
the
skinne
and
of
the
flesh
.
Then
tooke
they
the
other
hand
,
and
because
the
body
and
the
nerues
were
shrunke
vp
together
,
through
the
cold
,
they
were
faine
to
draw
out
the
hand
with
violence
,
to
make
it
reach
that
hole
,
which
they
had
already
made
.
They
also
tooke
his
sacred
feet
,
and
they
furiously
stretched
them
forth
to
nayle
them
.
And
there
be
holy
men
,
who
deliuer
,
that
for
the
nayling
of
his
hands
,
they
gaue
six
&
twenty
strokes
with
the
hammer
;
and
for
the
nayling
of
his
feet
,
six
&
thirty
;
&
that
through
the
violence
wherewith
they
drue
his
hands
and
feet
to
nayle
them
downe
,
the
ioynts
of
his
sacred
body
were
dissolued
,
&
the
bones
displaced
,
in
such
sorte
,
as
that
they
might
be
numbred
,
one
by
one
.
O
how
great
&
sharpe
,
were
these
torments
,
to
that
most
delicate
body
?
how
did
they
euen
parte
his
bowels
,
and
euen
pearce
his
hearte
?
Our
Lord
did
very
litterally
performe
that
which
the
Psalme
21.
had
said
,
They
haue
boared
through
my
hands
and
feet
,
and
they
haue
fastened
them
with
nailes
to
the
Crosse
;
and
by
reason
that
the
parts
of
my
body
were
so
extended
one
from
another
,
and
all
the
substantiall
humour
thereof
so
consumed
,
all
my
bones
might
be
numbred
.
As
soon
as
his
most
sacred
body
was
nailed
,
they
raised
the
Crosse
vp
on
high
;
and
they
suffered
it
to
fall
with
great
force
,
(
together
with
his
most
sacred
body
which
was
fastened
to
it
)
vpon
a
hoale
made
in
a
stone
,
which
was
there
prouided
for
that
purpose
.
This
was
another
incomparable
torment
;
for
then
all
the
parts
of
his
body
did
euen
open
their
ioynts
;
and
his
bowels
did
all
quiuer
;
and
the
hoales
of
his
hands
and
feet
,
did
spred
abroad
,
and
beganne
to
streame
forth
blood
,
like
so
many
springes
.
It
is
past
expression
,
to
shew
the
greatnes
of
the
torments
,
which
those
blessed
armes
endured
,
being
nayled
and
so
strictly
extended
;
and
those
sacred
feet
,
which
sustained
the
waight
of
his
whole
body
;
&
that
diuine
head
,
which
now
had
no
resting
place
but
vpon
thornes
;
and
the
paines
which
all
those
parts
of
his
body
felt
,
euery
one
of
them
being
out
of
the
true
place
;
and
those
finally
which
were
felt
by
that
blessed
soule
of
his
,
which
carried
vpon
it
,
the
immense
weight
of
all
those
torments
together
,
continuing
after
that
manner
,
that
soule
being
grown
a
very
sea
of
woe
,
for
the
space
of
three
houres
;
till
expiring
,
he
laid
it
in
the
hands
of
his
eternall
father
.
THE
V.
CHAPTER
.
Of
the
Patience
,
desire
,
and
loue
,
wherwith
Christ
our
Lord
indured
all
those
torments
,
for
the
example
and
edification
of
our
soules
.
AL
these
immense
sorrowes
and
torments
did
Christ
our
Lord
endure
with
a
Patience
,
which
was
vnspeakeable
,
and
indeed
only
worthy
of
himselfe
.
He
complained
not
of
his
enemies
,
who
treated
him
with
so
extreame
cruelty
;
nay
he
defended
not
himselfe
against
them
,
nor
was
he
angry
with
them
,
nor
did
he
shew
them
any
countenan e
of
disgust
,
nor
did
he
speake
any
one
word
,
which
might
doe
them
any
affront
,
or
offer
them
any
threate
,
or
put
them
to
any
paine
.
Nor
did
he
so
much
as
wish
them
any
hurt
,
but
did
both
wish
and
speake
benignely
&
mildly
to
them
.
And
he
conserued
in
his
most
dear
heart
,
a
great
loue
towardes
them
all
,
wherewith
(
for
as
much
as
they
would
be
capable
therof
)
he
loued
them
;
giuing
them
holy
inspirations
,
and
offering
them
diuine
succours
,
and
praying
for
them
,
&
wishing
that
they
would
profit
thereby
,
and
cooperate
with
them
,
and
be
conuerted
to
him
,
and
so
be
saued
.
And
he
was
euer
ready
to
pardon
them
,
and
to
receiue
them
to
his
grace
,
&
glory
,
if
they
would
be
conuerted
to
him
.
In
this
manner
did
Christ
our
Lord
carry
himself
towards
those
enemies
of
his
,
who
tormented
him
;
and
with
this
loue
,
and
with
this
Patience
,
did
he
treate
them
.
And
he
suffered
those
paines
and
torments
in
such
sorte
,
as
that
he
did
greatly
desire
and
delight
in
them
;
and
he
imbraced
them
with
the
extreame
gust
of
his
hart
;
&
reioyced
in
the
interiour
part
of
of
his
soule
with
vnspeakeable
gladnes
&
ioy
,
that
he
had
them
to
suffer
.
And
so
when
they
laid
the
Crosse
vpon
his
backe
,
and
when
they
nailed
him
to
it
,
he
intertayned
it
with
so
much
appetite
and
gust
,
as
cannot
be
expressed
.
Great
is
the
contentment
and
affection
,
wherewith
a
mother
embraces
a
most
beloued
sonne
,
when
shee
findes
him
deliuered
out
of
a
long
and
dangerous
captiuity
;
and
sees
him
returne
safe
and
sound
into
her
house
.
But
incomparably
much
greater
was
the
contentment
and
gust
,
wherewith
Christ
our
Lord
embraced
the
Crosse
.
For
already
there
were
passed
,
three
and
thirty
yeares
,
since
he
had
begunne
to
desire
,
and
loue
it
,
with
an
immense
desire
and
loue
;
that
so
he
might
worke
the
saluation
of
the
world
thereupon
:
and
then
perceiuing
,
that
his
so
long
and
vehement
desire
was
to
be
satisfied
,
it
cannot
be
expressed
,
how
great
gust
he
had
;
when
they
laid
and
strecht
him
vpon
that
Crosse
.
And
therfore
,
embracing
it
with
those
bowells
of
his
most
tender
loue
,
he
would
say
to
it
in
this
manner
,
in
the
interiour
part
of
his
hart
.
O
most
happy
Crosse
,
how
long
is
it
since
I
haue
loued
&
desired
thee
?
it
is
now
three
and
thirty
yeares
since
I
liue
enamoured
of
thee
,
and
I
all
enkindled
with
the
flames
of
this
desire
and
loue
,
to
see
myselfe
conioyned
to
thee
.
O
thou
most
pretious
wood
,
wherupon
the
iust
price
for
sinne
shall
be
payed
,
and
the
diuine
iustice
shall
remaine
fully
satisfied
,
and
my
Father
shall
be
perfectly
glorified
,
and
man
shall
be
saued
,
&
freed
from
sinne
and
death
,
and
eternall
damnation
;
&
shal
make
his
entry
into
the
Kingdome
of
heauen
:
O
with
how
good
a
will
I
suffer
my selfe
to
be
nayled
to
thee
,
and
will
so
continue
vpon
thee
,
till
I
leaue
to
liue
!
And
because
the
affection
and
desire
which
Christ
our
Lord
had
to
suffer
,
was
the
cause
of
that
vnspeakable
Patience
,
wherewith
he
endured
all
the
sorrowes
and
torments
of
the
Crosse
,
let
vs
consider
the
testimonies
of
the
Ghospel
wherin
he
declared
the
franke
will
&
desire
which
he
had
to
suffer
;
and
wherwith
he
offered
himselfe
to
his
Passion
and
death
.
He
discouered
this
his
pleasure
,
in
that
he
manifested
and
declared
many
times
,
and
in
particular
manner
to
his
disciples
,
how
he
was
to
suffer
in
Ierusalem
;
and
the
torments
&
kinde
of
death
which
he
was
to
suffer
.
Once
he
said
thus
to
them
.
Matt.
16.
It
is
fit
that
I
goe
to
Ierusalem
,
and
that
I
suffer
many
torments
,
at
the
hands
of
the
Scribes
and
Pharisees
,
and
chief
Priests
;
and
that
I
be
put
to
death
by
them
.
And
Saint
Peter
perswading
him
,
not
to
endure
it
,
he
reproued
him
in
sharpe
manner
,
for
seeking
to
hinder
his
Passion
.
It
is
cleer
,
that
since
he
knew
so
long
before
,
what
he
was
to
suffer
,
he
might
haue
auoided
it
,
and
fled
from
it
,
if
he
would
:
and
since
he
did
not
so
,
it
is
plaine
he
had
an
affection
and
desire
to
suffer
it
.
Another
time
going
vp
to
Ierusalem
,
some
few
dayes
before
that
Easter
,
when
he
suffered
,
he
said
thus
to
them
.
Matt.
20.
Behould
we
are
going
vp
to
Ierusalem
,
and
the
son
of
man
is
to
be
deliuered
vp
to
the
Princes
of
the
Priests
,
&
to
the
Scribes
,
who
will
condemne
him
to
death
;
and
will
deliuer
him
ouer
to
the
Gentiles
,
to
the
end
that
he
may
be
scorned
,
scourged
,
and
crucified
by
them
.
As
if
he
had
said
;
Behould
,
how
without
being
carryed
,
or
compelled
,
we
goe
,
in
a
most
voluntary
manner
to
Ierusalem
,
where
those
thinges
which
concerne
my
Passion
and
death
are
to
be
accomplished
;
to
the
end
that
you
may
vnderstand
,
how
willingly
I
offer
my selfe
to
that
Passion
and
death
,
whereby
I
am
to
saue
the
world
:
He
also
discouered
the
great
affection
,
and
desire
which
he
had
to
suffer
,
by
his
going
to
that
garden
,
which
was
so
notorious
a
place
,
and
where
he
knew
his
enemies
would
seeke
,
and
finde
him
out
;
as
also
,
in
that
being
there
,
and
knowing
that
his
enemies
came
to
apprehend
him
;
he
went
not
thence
to
some
other
place
,
where
they
might
not
finde
him
;
but
he
went
by
that
very
way
where
they
were
cominge
towards
him
;
&
he
went
to
meet
them
,
and
animated
his
disciples
to
goe
with
him
,
saying
.
Matt.
26.
Rise
vp
and
let
vs
goe
;
for
he
who
will
betray
mee
,
is
neer
at
hand
.
So
saith
Saint
Ierome
,
when
he
declares
these
words
.
Our
Lord
went
to
encounter
his
persecutors
,
without
any
feare
at
all
of
his
Passion
;
and
he
voluntarily
deliuered
himself
to
them
,
that
they
might
depriue
him
of
his
life
,
and
he
said
to
his
disciples
,
Rise
vp
,
and
let
vs
goe
:
as
if
he
had
said
;
let
not
our
enemies
finde
vs
heer
like
fearfull
men
;
but
let
vs
goe
with
good
courage
to
receiue
them
;
and
let
them
see
,
the
confidence
and
cheerfullnes
,
wherewith
we
offer
our selues
to
death
.
Being
gone
forth
to
meet
his
enemies
,
and
already
standing
before
them
;
and
they
hauing
many
lights
wherby
they
looked
vpon
him
;
&
he
being
well
knowen
to
them
,
and
especially
to
Iudas
:
yet
was
it
not
in
their
power
to
know
him
then
,
because
he
gaue
them
not
that
power
,
not
concurred
with
that
faculty
of
their
minde
,
wherby
they
were
to
haue
knowen
him
;
till
such
time
,
as
he
discouered
himselfe
to
them
by
saying
,
It
is
I
:
declaring
thereby
,
how
truly
it
was
in
his
owne
hand
not
to
be
taken
,
or
so
much
as
touched
by
them
,
vnles
he
would
himselfe
.
So
saith
Saint
Chrysostome
.
Our
Lord
standing
in
the
middest
of
his
enemies
,
did
blinde
their
eyes
;
&
this
he
did
,
to
make
them
know
,
that
not
onely
they
could
not
haue
apprehended
him
,
but
not
so
much
as
haue
seen
him
,
if
himselfe
had
not
giuen
them
power
to
doe
it
.
He
also
declared
thus
much
,
by
making
them
returne
and
fall
backward
to
the
ground
,
like
dead
men
,
and
that
with
one
onely
word
;
discouering
cleerly
thereby
,
how
easy
a
thing
it
had
bene
,
for
him
to
defend
himselfe
from
them
,
&
to
take
away
both
their
strength
and
life
,
if
he
had
bene
pleased
.
He
had
formerly
bene
in
feare
in
the
garden
;
to
declare
the
weakenes
of
mans
nature
;
and
by
the
immense
loue
which
he
bore
to
man
,
he
ouercame
all
that
naturall
feare
;
and
he
being
ouercome
by
that
very
loue
,
and
by
the
extreame
desire
which
he
had
to
suffer
for
the
saluation
of
mankinde
,
went
forth
to
receiue
his
enemies
,
as
if
they
had
bene
his
most
beloued
friends
.
And
first
hauing
made
it
plaine
,
that
they
could
not
once
haue
touched
him
,
nor
so
much
as
haue
knowen
him
,
if
he
had
not
bene
so
pleased
;
he
then
gaue
them
leaue
and
power
to
doe
what
they
would
to
him
.
And
this
he
declared
,
by
saying
.
This
is
your
houre
,
and
the
power
of
darcknes
.
This
is
that
hower
,
wherein
liberty
is
giuen
you
,
to
the
end
that
you
and
the
Princes
of
darcknes
,
by
your
meanes
,
may
execute
both
his
power
,
&
his
cruell
wil
,
vpon
my
person
.
This
affection
,
wherewith
Christ
our
Lord
offered
himselfe
to
the
torments
of
death
,
and
this
inuincible
Patience
wherewith
he
endured
them
,
had
bene
prophecied
by
Esai
53.
chap.
in
these
words
,
He
offered
himselfe
to
death
,
because
he
would
.
The
same
Prophet
had
said
,
The
eternall
Father
had
layd
all
our
sinnes
vpon
Christ
our
Lord
,
to
the
end
that
he
might
satisfy
for
them
all
;
and
all
those
sinnes
might
be
destroyed
,
&
consumed
by
the
vertue
of
his
Passion
.
And
instantly
he
declares
the
manner
how
he
layd
them
vpon
him
,
which
was
not
by
forcing
,
or
constraining
him
to
suffer
;
but
by
infusing
an
immense
charity
into
him
,
and
by
inspiring
,
&
mouing
his
heart
thereby
to
the
end
that
voluntarily
and
freely
,
&
with
extreame
readines
and
gladnes
he
might
offer
himselfe
to
death
.
And
declaring
the
Patience
,
wherewith
he
suffered
that
death
,
he
saith
;
As
a
sheepe
he
opened
not
his
mouth
.
So
great
was
the
Patience
,
the
desire
and
loue
,
wherewith
he
endured
the
torments
,
which
he
tooke
vpon
him
,
for
the
discharge
of
our
sinnes
,
that
he
opned
not
his
mouth
,
either
to
defend
himself
,
or
complaine
of
others
.
Like
a
quiet
sheepe
,
which
bleyes
not
,
when
his
throate
is
cut
;
so
went
he
in
sufferance
and
silence
,
as
he
was
carryed
to
death
:
and
as
an
innocent
and
still
lambe
,
which
is
silent
&
quiet
whilest
they
sheere
him
,
so
our
most
blessed
Lord
,
did
in
quiet
silence
and
repose
endure
that
fierce
outrage
,
wherewith
his
enemies
tormented
him
,
and
that
most
cruell
fury
wherewith
they
put
him
to
death
.
By
these
and
other
testimonies
,
did
Christ
our
Lord
declare
the
immense
loue
and
most
ardent
desire
,
which
he
had
to
suffer
the
torments
and
death
,
which
he
endured
for
man
,
yea
&
yet
to
endure
greater
torments
,
&
to
suffer
more
deathes
,
if
his
enemies
had
power
to
giue
him
more
;
wheereupon
wee
may
inferre
,
the
vnspeakeable
Patience
and
ioy
,
wherewith
he
suffered
them
.
Wee
must
ponder
,
and
continually
meditate
,
with
a
very
profound
and
deep
consideration
,
vpon
these
examples
of
Patience
,
which
shine
in
the
life
and
Passion
of
Christ
our
Lord
;
and
thereby
we
must
be
animated
to
suffer
&
endure
with
true
Patience
,
all
those
euills
of
punishment
,
which
may
happen
to
vs
in
this
life
,
how
great
or
tedious
soeuer
they
may
be
.
For
therefore
(
saith
Saint
Efrem
)
the
afflictions
and
tribulations
of
this
life
,
seem
grieuous
and
intolerable
to
vs
,
because
wee
consider
not
the
Passion
and
death
of
Christ
our
Lord
.
Let
vs
therefore
allwaies
carry
before
our
eyes
&
imprint
in
our
hearts
this
death
and
Passion
of
his
;
and
all
those
examples
,
which
he
gaue
vs
therin
of
Patience
:
and
let
vs
imitate
him
,
by
suffering
all
the
contradictions
and
penalties
of
this
life
with
a
good
will
.
And
since
it
becomes
a
soldier
to
follow
his
captaine
,
with
much
labour
and
with
offering
himselfe
to
troubles
,
and
wounds
,
and
dangers
of
death
;
though
he
be
but
a
mortall
man
,
who
cannot
giue
him
strength
wherewith
to
fight
;
nor
can
raise
him
from
death
if
he
should
by
in
the
combat
;
nor
can
giue
him
,
who
conquers
any
other
reward
then
some
temporall
thing
of
small
value
;
how
much
more
is
it
reasonable
,
that
wee
follow
and
imitate
Christ
our
Lord
,
&
Sauiour
,
by
suffering
with
Patience
?
Since
he
giues
strength
to
them
,
who
follow
him
wherewith
to
suffer
,
and
conforts
wherewith
to
do
it
cheerfully
;
and
deliuers
them
who
imitate
him
from
eternall
death
,
and
and
bestowes
the
most
excellent
reward
vpon
them
of
eternall
life
.
For
,
as
the
Apostle
saith
,
it
is
a
word
most
faithfull
,
true
,
&
worthy
of
all
estimation
,
that
,
if
wee
dy
with
Christ
our
Lord
,
that
is
to
say
,
if
wee
dy
to
our
sinnes
,
and
ill
desires
,
abhorring
and
mortifying
them
,
as
Christ
our
Lord
died
to
his
corporall
life
;
we
shall
lead
a
most
glorious
and
blessed
life
together
with
him
;
And
if
we
suffer
the
sad
and
painfull
things
of
this
world
,
and
euen
death
it selfe
with
Patience
,
for
the
loue
of
Christ
our
Lord
,
and
in
imitation
of
him
,
wee
shall
reigne
with
him
for
euer
in
his
celestiall
Kingdome
.
THE
VI.
CHAPTER
.
Of
the
Patience
wherewith
wee
ought
to
suffer
the
losse
of
temporall
goods
,
and
of
the
example
which
Christ
our
Lord
gaue
vs
herein
.
THough
any
one
of
the
paines
&
torments
,
which
were
suffered
by
Christ
our
Lord
,
may
serue
for
a
sufficient
motiue
,
to
animate
vs
to
endure
all
the
afflictions
and
tribulations
of
this
life
with
Patience
;
yet
that
kind
of
paine
endured
by
him
,
which
carries
most
resemblance
to
the
Crosse
,
which
most
vsually
is
to
be
suffered
by
vs
,
doth
vse
to
comfort
&
induce
vs
best
to
suffer
it
:
and
for
this
reason
wee
will
treat
of
some
particular
Crosses
,
for
which
we
may
finde
particular
examples
of
Patience
,
in
the
Passion
of
Christ
our
Lord
.
One
of
the
ills
of
punishment
,
which
happens
ordinarily
to
men
,
is
the
losse
of
their
estate
,
&
temporall
goods
,
which
befalles
them
sometimes
because
they
are
robbed
;
sometimes
they
loose
them
by
meanes
of
fier
,
and
shipwrackes
;
sometimes
by
vniust
suites
in
lawe
;
sometimes
they
are
coosened
of
them
;
&
sometimes
they
are
put
to
preiudice
by
the
intemperate
seasons
of
the
yeare
.
By
what
way
or
meanes
soeuer
we
growe
to
loose
our
temporall
goods
,
wee
must
eudure
it
with
Patience
,
accepting
it
at
the
hand
of
God
,
and
conforming
our selues
to
his
holy
will
.
The
particular
example
which
must
comfort
vs
in
this
affliction
,
and
giue
vs
heart
to
beare
it
with
Patience
,
is
to
see
that
Christ
our
Lord
was
vniustly
stript
of
all
his
cloathes
in
his
most
sacred
Passion
,
by
those
most
base
soldiers
,
who
crucified
him
.
He
liued
poore
in
this
world
;
and
because
he
loued
and
extreamely
delighted
in
pouerty
,
he
possessed
no
temporall
goods
at
all
.
Those
things
which
he
receiued
by
way
of
almes
to
sustaine
his
Apostles
,
&
to
deuide
amongst
the
poore
,
he
had
already
bestowed
.
There
remained
no
more
to
him
,
but
his
cloathes
,
and
of
those
they
stript
him
,
and
left
him
naked
:
&
that
nakednes
was
accompanyed
with
great
cold
,
and
great
shame
,
which
he
suffered
,
by
remayning
in
that
sorte
till
he
dyed
.
From
others
who
are
executed
,
men
take
not
their
cloathes
till
they
be
dead
;
but
from
our
most
blessed
Lord
,
they
tooke
his
,
whilest
yet
he
was
aliue
;
and
he
was
pleased
to
endure
this
being
dispoiled
of
his
cloathes
,
and
this
paine
and
shame
in
remaining
naked
,
that
he
might
suffer
for
vs
,
and
withall
might
giue
vs
an
example
of
Patience
.
Let
vs
therefore
animate
our selues
by
this
example
of
Christ
our
Lord
,
to
suffer
any
want
,
or
losse
of
temporall
goods
:
and
let
vs
say
thus
in
our
owne
hearts
.
Since
Christ
the
Kinge
of
glory
,
and
the
vniuersall
Lord
of
the
whole
world
,
would
needes
,
for
loue
of
me
,
and
for
my
saluation
,
endure
pouerty
and
the
want
of
temporall
goods
;
&
was
content
that
they
should
strip
him
of
all
his
cloathes
,
and
expose
him
naked
to
the
ayre
,
and
put
him
to
the
shame
of
appearing
so
to
the
whole
people
;
most
iust
it
is
,
that
I
,
for
loue
of
him
,
and
for
the
saluation
of
mine
owne
soule
,
should
endure
this
want
of
meanes
,
and
this
losse
,
or
wrong
,
whereby
I
am
depriued
of
the
temporall
goods
which
once
I
had
.
And
let
vs
consider
for
the
better
exercise
of
our
Patience
,
that
whatsoeuer
preiudice
or
temporall
losse
wee
haue
,
doth
come
to
vs
from
the
hand
of
God
,
and
for
the
good
of
our
soules
.
This
did
Christ
our
Lord
discouer
to
vs
,
by
another
example
,
and
testimony
of
the
holy
Ghospell
.
Matt.
8.
Luc.
5.
Mar.
8.
He
went
into
the
country
of
the
Gerasens
,
where
he
found
two
men
tormented
with
diuells
.
He
cast
the
diuells
out
,
and
so
cured
the
men
by
the
power
of
his
word
.
The
diuells
besought
him
,
that
since
he
had
cast
them
out
of
those
men
,
he
would
giue
them
leaue
to
enter
into
a
great
heard
of
swine
,
which
was
feeding
in
those
fields
hard
by
,
and
which
belonged
to
the
inhabitants
of
that
Citty
.
Our
Lord
gaue
them
leaue
to
doe
it
,
and
instantly
they
possessed
those
swine
,
which
might
arriue
to
the
number
of
two
thousand
,
&
they
carried
them
with
extreame
fury
into
the
sea
,
where
they
were
drowned
.
Hereby
wee
are
taught
,
that
the
diuells
could
do
no
hurt
to
the
swine
,
vnles
our
Lord
had
giuen
them
leaue
:
as
neither
the
diuell
,
nor
any
other
creature
,
can
doe
vs
any
hurt
at
all
,
vnlesse
God
giue
than
power
to
that
purpose
,
and
vnlesse
he
worke
by
meanes
of
the
diuel
,
or
that
other
creature
,
which
doth
vs
hurt
,
whatsoeuer
it
be
.
For
though
God
be
not
the
cause
of
any
fault
or
sinne
;
yet
is
he
the
cause
of
the
punishment
,
which
is
brought
on
by
reason
of
the
sinne
or
fault
,
&
is
receiued
by
meanes
thereof
.
So
saith
Saint
Athanasius
.
Since
the
diuels
haue
not
so
much
as
power
ouer
swine
,
which
are
but
the
goods
of
men
,
it
is
cleer
that
they
haue
no
power
ouer
men
,
who
are
made
according
to
the
image
of
God
;
and
so
wee
haue
no
cause
to
feare
the
diuells
,
but
onely
God
.
And
the
same
did
he
declare
concerning
the
hurt
which
might
growe
to
vs
from
any
other
creature
,
that
it
also
proceeds
from
the
hand
of
God
,
saying
,
Matt.
10.
Two
sparrowes
are
of
so
little
value
,
that
they
are
sold
for
a
toy
,
and
yet
God
hath
so
particular
care
and
prouidence
ouer
euery
one
of
them
,
that
not
one
can
fall
dead
to
the
ground
,
or
be
taken
in
a
snare
,
without
his
disposition
&
will
.
And
then
how
much
more
will
he
take
care
of
men
;
and
not
consent
that
any
creature
should
so
much
as
touch
them
,
either
in
soule
or
body
,
or
so
much
as
in
their
goods
,
without
his
leaue
?
In
this
manner
did
Christ
our
Lord
declare
,
that
all
ills
of
punishment
,
proceed
to
vs
from
the
hand
of
God
.
He
also
shewed
,
how
he
ordaines
them
all
,
to
the
good
of
soules
;
that
is
,
to
the
end
that
sinners
may
be
conuerted
,
and
iust
persons
saued
;
because
he
desires
not
the
death
of
a
sinner
,
but
that
he
may
be
conuerted
and
liue
;
&
particularly
he
procures
this
,
when
he
takes
their
goods
from
them
,
as
Saint
Augustine
notes
,
saying
thus
.
When
God
visits
his
seruants
with
the
want
of
thinges
necessary
for
this
life
,
and
makes
them
suffer
hunger
,
or
thirst
,
as
he
proceeded
with
the
Apostles
,
he
failes
not
thereby
of
the
promise
which
he
made
them
,
that
nothing
should
be
wanting
to
them
.
For
these
temporall
goods
,
are
helpes
and
kinds
of
Physicke
to
the
soule
;
and
God
is
the
Physitian
,
who
best
knowes
,
when
to
minister
them
,
and
when
to
remoue
them
;
and
so
when
they
are
wanting
to
vs
,
as
they
are
many
times
,
wee
must
knowe
that
God
Almighty
is
the
cause
thereof
,
for
the
exercise
of
our
vertue
,
and
for
the
good
of
our
soules
.
And
speaking
in
particular
,
of
that
which
Christ
our
Lord
did
with
the
Gerasins
,
in
depriuing
them
of
their
goods
,
when
he
gaue
the
diuells
leaue
to
drowne
their
swine
,
Saint
Ierome
saith
;
Christ
our
Lord
gaue
them
not
that
liberty
,
by
way
of
granting
their
desire
,
or
to
performe
their
will
;
but
to
the
end
that
the
losse
of
their
goods
might
be
profitable
to
the
owners
for
their
soules
,
&
be
an
occasion
of
their
saluation
.
And
the
spirituall
profit
,
which
came
to
them
hereupon
,
as
Saint
Chrisostome
obserues
,
was
that
they
might
knowe
the
power
,
which
diuells
had
to
doe
men
hurt
,
if
God
did
not
hinder
them
,
and
so
they
might
be
thankefull
to
him
for
defending
them
by
his
diuine
prouidence
;
as
also
to
the
end
that
they
might
feare
,
and
fly
from
sinne
,
by
meanes
whereof
,
men
grewe
subiect
to
the
power
of
diuells
,
to
be
vexed
by
them
in
this
life
with
temporall
paines
,
and
in
the
next
with
eternall
torments
.
These
are
the
motiues
&
reasons
,
which
a
faithfull
Christian
must
consider
,
to
the
end
that
he
may
beare
the
losse
of
temporall
goods
with
Patience
;
namely
,
the
example
of
Christ
our
Lord
;
&
that
it
comes
from
the
hand
of
God
;
and
for
the
good
of
his
soule
.
And
thus
the
losse
of
temporal
goods
,
will
be
of
greater
profit
to
him
,
then
the
encrease
thereof
would
haue
bene
.
For
,
that
little
temporall
losse
,
will
be
the
occasion
of
a
great
spirituall
gaine
:
The
Saints
of
God
,
haue
confessed
&
experimented
this
truth
.
Whilest
the
blessed
Laurentius
Iustinianus
(
he
who
afterward
was
Patriarch
of
Venice
)
was
one
day
out
of
his
Monastery
,
the
house
fell
on
fier
;
and
that
parte
thereof
was
burnt
,
where
he
kept
the
prouisions
of
food
,
which
he
had
laid
vp
for
the
whole
yeare
.
When
the
Saint
came
home
from
abroad
,
the
Religious
men
tould
him
what
had
past
,
and
they
were
afflicted
by
occasion
of
so
great
a
losse
.
But
the
Saint
,
considering
how
it
came
ordained
by
the
prouidence
of
God
,
who
so
deerly
loues
vs
,
and
who
in
all
thinges
procures
the
good
of
soules
,
and
especially
of
such
as
serue
him
,
receiued
this
losse
with
much
contentment
;
though
not
for
the
losse
it selfe
,
but
because
the
will
,
and
ordination
of
Almighty
God
,
was
accomplished
thereby
.
And
so
with
a
cheerfull
contenance
he
said
to
his
Religious
;
What
hurt
is
there
,
my
children
,
in
this
which
hath
happened
to
vs
?
It
is
no
ill
,
but
good
;
it
is
no
losse
but
gaine
;
since
by
meanes
thereof
,
wee
shall
better
execute
our
good
desires
,
in
practising
pouerty
,
and
Patience
.
It
is
a
great
benefit
to
the
seruant
of
God
,
and
of
much
merit
and
value
,
when
he
may
distribute
his
goods
to
the
poore
,
and
imploy
them
vpon
the
workes
of
mercy
:
but
if
he
chance
to
loose
his
goods
,
if
they
be
stolne
from
him
,
if
gotten
away
by
iniustice
,
or
lost
by
any
other
accident
,
and
if
he
accept
of
that
losse
with
much
Patience
and
with
much
contentment
,
for
the
loue
of
God
,
and
to
conforme
himself
with
his
diuine
will
,
who
so
ordained
;
he
ordinarily
doth
aduantage
his
soule
more
,
and
it
doth
merit
more
,
and
please
God
more
by
this
course
,
then
by
the
other
.
For
this
Act
of
the
vertue
of
Patience
&
resignation
is
more
pure
&
free
from
selfe
loue
,
&
thereby
a
man
doth
more
deny
and
mortify
his
owne
will
,
&
doth
more
exercise
Faith
and
hope
in
God
,
as
also
the
loue
of
his
,
and
the
estimation
of
his
holy
will
.
And
so
wee
see
,
that
our
Lord
hath
taken
away
these
goods
by
some
sinister
accident
from
many
Saints
,
which
they
would
haue
giuen
away
in
almes
;
to
affoard
them
meanes
of
greater
merit
thereby
;
and
for
the
exercise
of
that
rare
Patience
,
wherwith
they
accepted
and
loued
their
aduersity
,
and
had
gust
therein
,
as
proceeding
from
the
will
of
God
.
Saint
Iohn
the
Patriarch
of
Alexandria
,
a
man
of
rare
mercy
towards
miserable
men
,
and
euen
a
very
miracle
of
mercy
,
sent
from
Alexandria
,
to
the
Adriaticke
sea
thirteene
ships
full
loaden
with
marchandise
,
and
thinges
of
value
,
which
he
had
raised
out
of
the
Reuenues
of
his
Church
,
that
so
they
might
be
sold
in
diuers
parts
remote
,
and
the
whole
price
be
giuen
by
him
to
poore
people
in
the
way
of
almes
,
as
his
custom
was
.
Now
it
pleased
Almighty
God
,
that
vpon
the
rising
of
a
great
tempest
at
Sea
,
al
the
goods
were
cast
away
,
and
the
shippes
returned
empty
to
Alexandria
.
And
God
did
thus
ordaine
,
because
he
more
esteemed
the
great
Humility
,
and
Patience
,
which
the
Saint
would
exercise
in
this
wracke
,
them
the
Mercy
which
he
would
haue
exercised
,
if
the
goods
had
not
bene
lost
.
And
so
without
all
faile
the
profit
,
which
the
Saint
drew
from
thence
,
was
admirably
great
;
he
receiuing
it
with
a
good
will
,
and
giuing
God
harty
thankes
for
the
same
;
and
humbling
himselfe
much
,
by
the
knowledge
of
his
sinnes
;
in
regard
whereof
he
confessed
,
that
God
had
sent
him
that
losse
,
to
clense
him
more
perfectly
from
those
sinnes
.
Saint
Chrisostome
teaches
vs
this
truth
,
and
confirmes
it
by
the
example
of
holy
Iob
,
saying
thus
;
Nor
onely
the
doing
of
good
,
but
the
suffering
of
ill
,
obtaines
a
high
reward
,
in
the
sight
of
God
:
and
Iob
seemes
to
haue
profited
more
in
vertue
,
by
the
afflictions
which
he
endured
,
then
by
the
good
deeds
which
he
performed
.
For
really
,
it
was
not
so
illustrious
,
&
so
high
an
act
in
him
,
when
with
the
wooll
of
his
sheepe
,
he
clad
the
naked
,
&
set
his
house
open
to
the
destitute
,
that
they
might
take
parte
of
the
goods
he
had
;
as
when
,
hearing
that
the
fier
had
consumed
his
stocke
,
and
that
his
house
was
fallen
,
and
his
fortune
ouerthrowen
,
he
accepted
of
that
losse
,
at
the
hands
of
God
,
and
thanked
him
for
it
.
And
a
greater
victory
did
he
obtaine
of
the
enemy
,
and
he
confounded
him
more
,
in
giuing
thankes
to
God
vpon
the
losse
of
his
goods
,
then
in
bestowing
them
vpon
poore
people
.
For
certeinly
it
is
an
act
of
greater
vertue
,
to
endure
the
losse
of
goods
with
a
generous
&
gratefull
minde
to
God
,
then
to
bestow
almes
vpon
the
poore
.
Nor
is
it
a
thing
to
be
admired
,
for
a
man
to
giue
God
hearty
thankes
when
he
is
in
good
estate
,
&
when
things
succeed
prosperously
with
him
;
but
vpon
the
arriuall
of
mischances
,
and
in
the
losse
of
temporall
goods
to
giue
harty
thanks
to
God
,
and
to
esteeme
such
contradictions
for
benefits
,
is
a
very
admirable
thing
;
and
giues
a
very
excellent
testimony
of
great
vertue
.
This
is
the
discourse
of
Saint
Chrisostome
.
Let
vs
therefore
serue
our
selues
of
these
examples
,
and
testimonies
of
Christ
our
Lord
and
of
his
Saints
,
to
make
vs
suffer
all
losse
of
temporall
goods
,
with
Patience
.
Let
vs
so
much
esteeme
of
of
the
spiritual
health
of
our
soules
,
that
whatsoeuer
may
be
profitable
to
vs
for
them
,
wee
may
value
as
a
great
mercy
,
and
gift
of
God
.
And
since
the
losse
of
temporall
goods
,
giues
vs
matter
and
occasion
for
the
exercise
of
Charity
towards
God
,
by
louing
it
because
he
loues
it
;
and
for
the
exercise
of
Patience
,
by
enduring
it
and
accepting
it
willingly
because
God
sends
it
;
and
because
therby
we
discerne
the
loue
which
God
carries
towards
vs
,
and
the
care
he
hath
of
our
saluation
(
since
he
giues
vs
helpes
,
and
ministers
vs
occasions
whereby
wee
may
serue
him
the
better
and
so
profit
more
;
)
let
vs
esteeme
of
euery
temporall
losse
for
a
very
great
benefit
,
and
mercy
of
God
;
and
as
for
such
let
vs
thanke
and
praise
him
saying
,
with
holy
Iob.
chap.
1.
It
is
God
who
gaue
mee
this
temporall
blessing
,
and
it
is
he
who
hath
taken
it
away
;
as
himselfe
was
pleased
so
hath
he
proceeded
with
mee
.
Most
iust
and
holy
was
his
will
,
both
in
giuing
it
and
in
taking
it
,
and
his
holy
will
the
blessed
for
euer
.
THE
VII
.
CHAPTER
.
Of
the
Patience
,
Wherewith
wee
are
to
endure
corporall
infirmities
;
and
of
the
example
,
which
Christ
our
Lord
hath
giuen
vs
herein
.
ANother
euill
of
punishment
,
and
very
vsuall
and
common
in
the
life
of
man
,
is
corporall
infirmities
and
feauers
,
and
seueral
other
paines
&
torments
,
and
wounds
,
which
he
suffers
;
by
reason
whereof
,
he
is
in
great
need
of
Patience
:
&
we
must
fetch
it
also
in
this
kinde
,
from
the
example
of
Christ
our
Lord
.
And
though
our
most
blessed
Lord
had
no
naturall
infirmities
at
all
;
nor
was
it
fit
that
he
should
haue
any
,
because
these
are
wont
to
proceed
,
from
some
defect
of
complexion
,
or
natural
faculty
of
the
body
,
or
from
some
disorder
in
life
;
yet
all
the
paines
,
and
torments
of
his
most
sacred
Passion
,
may
serue
for
a
most
efficacious
motiue
,
to
make
vs
support
all
kinde
of
those
infirmities
with
Patience
,
which
may
happen
to
vs
in
this
life
;
and
particularly
the
paine
,
&
torment
of
thirst
,
which
he
suffered
vpon
the
Crosse
,
&
the
being
so
forsaken
&
abandoned
,
as
then
he
was
.
For
that
which
men
are
much
troubled
with
,
in
their
sicknesse
in
their
sicknesse
is
the
paine
and
torment
which
sicknesse
put
them
to
;
and
the
want
of
that
assistance
&
seruice
,
which
is
necessary
for
the
cure
,
or
ease
at
least
,
of
the
infirmity
;
&
al
this
was
found
extreamly
in
that
thirst
,
which
Christ
our
Lord
endured
vpon
the
Crosse
.
The
thirst
,
which
Christ
our
Lord
suffered
,
was
most
vehement
;
First
by
reason
of
the
incomparable
labours
&
vexations
,
which
he
had
suffered
all
that
day
and
the
night
before
;
and
secondly
,
because
by
the
hurts
and
wounds
,
which
they
had
giuen
him
,
he
had
shed
either
all
,
or
in
a
manner
all
the
blood
out
of
his
veines
;
and
by
the
waie
as
he
went
,
and
by
the
vexation
and
labour
to
which
he
was
put
he
had
sweat
away
all
the
humour
of
his
sacred
body
,
which
then
was
growen
all
consumed
,
and
dry
.
And
to
this
it
must
be
added
,
that
from
the
supper
of
the
night
before
,
and
in
all
that
day
following
,
he
had
not
drunke
,
so
much
as
one
drop
of
water
.
Now
if
any
one
of
these
thinges
be
wont
to
cause
great
thirst
,
as
wee
see
in
men
who
are
wounded
,
and
haue
shed
much
blood
,
and
in
them
who
haue
laboured
,
and
sweat
much
,
and
in
them
also
who
haue
not
drunke
of
a
long
time
before
:
what
kinde
of
thirst
shall
that
haue
bene
,
which
was
endured
by
Christ
our
Lord
?
Infallibly
it
was
most
extreame
;
&
the
torment
,
which
it
caused
,
was
grieuous
,
beyond
any
thing
which
we
are
able
to
expresse
.
And
now
declaring
the
paine
and
torment
,
which
he
felt
thereby
,
he
said
thus
,
I
thirst
;
and
the
remedy
and
comfort
,
which
he
obtained
for
the
ease
thereof
,
was
,
that
one
of
the
soldiers
tooke
a
spunge
,
and
wetting
it
in
wine
,
which
was
spoyled
and
growen
vineger
,
and
mingled
with
gall
,
he
tyed
it
to
a
long
cane
,
and
so
applied
it
to
his
sacred
mouth
;
and
our
Lord
tooke
thereof
,
not
to
drinke
it
downe
(
because
it
was
not
fit
that
he
should
drinke
of
so
deadly
a
thing
)
but
he
tooke
it
to
haue
a
taste
thereof
;
he
tooke
as
much
as
might
serue
to
afflict
,
&
torment
his
taste
;
so
to
suffer
the
more
for
vs
.
So
doth
the
deuout
Lanspergius
declare
,
saying
;
Our
Lord
,
vnderstanding
well
,
how
bitter
that
drinke
was
,
which
they
gaue
him
,
did
yet
take
therof
,
through
his
great
loue
to
vs
;
not
so
swallow
it
downe
,
but
onely
to
afflict
his
tongue
and
taste
with
bitternes
:
that
so
he
might
take
torment
in
that
parte
of
him
,
from
which
sinne
grew
in
vs
.
For
Eue
committed
her
sinne
by
tasting
of
the
forbidden
fruite
,
and
by
meanes
of
her
sinne
,
did
Adam
sinne
;
and
so
haue
wee
all
done
after
him
.
Such
a
kinde
of
refreshinge
was
allowed
to
Christ
our
Lord
against
his
paine
,
and
torment
of
thirst
,
which
was
to
encrease
the
same
paine
,
and
torment
.
So
saith
Saint
Cyrill
;
In
stead
of
some
wholesome
drinke
,
which
might
refresh
him
,
they
gaue
him
a
bitter
and
hurtfull
drinke
;
and
that
curtesy
,
which
they
would
seeme
to
vse
in
giuing
him
somewhat
to
take
,
was
conuerted
into
cruelty
,
by
giuing
him
so
vile
a
thing
.
And
this
did
Saint
Luke
chap.
23.
signify
,
saying
;
that
the
soldiers
,
putting
a
scorne
vpon
our
Lord
,
did
offer
him
vineger
.
The
Psalme
recounts
the
iniury
and
affliction
,
which
hereby
they
put
vpon
Christ
our
Lord
,
amongst
the
rest
of
his
torments
saying
.
Psal.
68.
They
gaue
mee
gall
in
steed
of
meate
,
and
in
my
thirst
they
gaue
mee
vineger
to
drinke
.
That
is
to
say
:
they
were
so
farre
from
hauing
compassion
of
me
in
my
miseries
;
&
so
great
was
the
cruelty
which
they
vsed
towards
me
,
that
when
I
came
with
my
Crosse
vpon
my
backe
to
the
place
of
torment
,
in
steed
of
some
aromaticall
wine
(
such
as
they
vsed
to
giue
dying
men
for
their
comfort
)
they
gaue
mee
wine
corrupted
,
and
mingled
with
gall
,
and
mirrhe
;
which
being
so
very
thicke
was
become
as
a
most
bitter
,
and
most
hurtful
meate
.
And
being
afterward
nayled
vpon
the
very
Crosse
,
hauing
my
blood
exhausted
,
and
I
being
totmented
with
thirst
,
and
declaring
the
thirst
I
had
,
they
gaue
mee
vinagre
mingled
with
gal
to
drinke
.
This
was
the
torment
of
thirst
,
which
Christ
our
Lord
suffered
vpon
this
Crosse
,
and
thus
was
he
content
to
be
abandoned
;
and
by
meanes
of
this
,
and
the
rest
,
which
he
endured
there
,
all
faithfull
Christians
are
to
comfort
themselues
in
their
corporall
infirmities
,
and
must
be
animated
to
endure
them
,
with
Patience
;
to
imitate
our
Lord
thereby
,
and
conforme
themselues
to
his
holy
wil.
So
saith
Saint
Gregory
;
To
the
end
that
sicke
persons
may
conserue
the
vertue
of
Patience
in
their
sicknesses
,
they
must
continually
consider
the
paines
which
our
God
and
our
Redeemer
did
suffer
at
the
hands
of
his
owne
creatures
,
&
how
many
affronts
,
how
many
buffets
,
how
many
spittings
,
how
many
scourges
,
and
how
many
thornes
he
endured
for
our
saluation
;
and
particularly
how
,
to
bestow
the
sweetnes
of
heauen
vpon
vs
,
he
tooke
,
when
he
was
most
thirsty
,
the
bitternes
of
gall
for
himselfe
.
This
is
the
saying
of
Saint
Gregory
.
Besides
this
,
Christ
our
Lord
declared
by
many
examples
,
and
testimonies
of
the
holy
Ghospell
,
how
great
blessings
are
contained
in
corporall
infirmities
;
and
how
great
fruites
are
gathered
from
thence
by
such
as
endure
them
with
Patience
.
By
this
meanes
of
sicknesse
,
he
drew
many
to
his
Faith
,
and
to
his
grace
,
and
to
the
obedience
of
his
Ghospell
;
and
he
cured
them
so
,
of
many
sinnes
.
For
when
they
found
themselues
sicke
,
they
went
in
search
after
health
of
the
body
;
and
then
belieuing
,
and
doing
penance
for
their
sinnes
,
they
obtained
also
health
for
their
soules
.
So
doth
the
holy
Euangelists
informe
vs
often
.
For
speaking
of
those
woemen
,
who
with
great
deuotion
&
faith
followed
Christ
our
Lord
,
Saint
Luke
saith
.
chap.
8.
Our
Lord
going
to
preach
amongst
those
Citties
,
and
townes
,
diuers
woemen
followed
him
,
whom
he
had
deliuered
from
impure
spirits
,
&
cured
of
their
infirmities
.
Some
of
these
,
were
Marie
Magdalen
,
and
Ioanna
the
wife
of
Chusa
,
a
lawyer
of
Herods
,
and
Susanna
,
and
many
others
.
And
they
following
our
Lord
,
did
supply
him
out
of
their
meanes
,
with
necessaries
for
the
sustentation
of
his
life
.
By
these
words
,
the
holy
Euangelist
giues
vs
to
vnderstand
,
that
their
hauing
bene
sicke
,
and
cured
by
our
Lord
,
was
the
way
to
make
them
beleeue
in
him
,
&
to
follow
him
;
both
in
body
and
soule
.
And
of
the
woman
,
who
was
sicke
of
a
bloody
fluxe
,
Matth.
9.
Marc.
5.
and
had
found
no
remedy
by
her
Physitians
.
S.
Matthew
declares
the
same
;
and
that
her
infirmity
had
made
her
looke
for
remedy
in
Christ
our
Lord
;
&
to
be
beleeue
and
confide
in
him
,
with
so
liuely
faith
,
that
shee
obtained
health
both
in
body
,
and
soule
.
And
the
same
thing
happened
to
the
paralitike
,
Mat.
9.
Mar.
2.
for
whom
the
roofe
of
the
house
was
taken
of
,
that
he
might
be
brought
before
our
Lord
:
for
his
infirmity
was
the
cause
why
he
made
himselfe
be
carryed
,
&
presented
to
him
;
and
that
he
would
beleeue
in
him
,
with
sorrow
for
his
sinnes
,
and
so
obtaine
pardon
thereof
.
The
same
also
happened
to
innumerable
other
sicke
persons
,
whose
sicknesses
were
the
cause
,
why
they
sought
out
Christ
our
Lord
,
and
gaue
eare
to
his
word
,
and
beleeued
in
him
,
and
amended
their
liues
,
and
obtained
true
cure
of
their
soules
.
A
great
blessing
of
God
,
is
this
kinde
of
corporal
infirmity
,
since
it
is
the
roote
,
and
occasion
of
so
high
a
good
,
as
it
is
for
man
to
know
his
sinnes
,
and
to
be
sory
for
them
,
and
to
obtaine
a
cleane
and
healthfull
soule
,
and
eternall
happines
afterward
.
Saint
Gregory
aduises
sicke
persons
,
to
consider
this
well
;
that
so
they
may
vnderstand
the
great
benefit
of
sicknesse
,
and
thus
he
saith
.
Let
sicke
persons
consider
how
profitable
the
sicknes
of
the
body
is
for
the
health
of
the
soule
,
&
how
great
a
gift
of
God
it
is
.
For
it
makes
a
man
enter
into
himselfe
,
and
knowe
his
weakenes
,
and
his
sinnes
,
and
the
miseries
to
which
he
is
subiect
.
It
makes
him
feare
God
,
and
reforme
his
life
,
that
so
by
meanes
of
penance
,
he
may
be
made
cleane
from
his
former
sinnes
,
and
may
be
bridled
and
fortified
towards
the
not
committing
others
afterward
.
Saint
Gregory
Nazianzen
relates
how
being
one
day
present
with
Eudoxius
,
a
holy
man
,
who
was
sicke
;
and
interpreting
,
at
the
request
of
the
sicke
man
,
the
seauenty
second
Psalme
,
wherein
the
holy
Ghost
declares
,
how
God
is
wont
to
visit
his
seruants
in
this
life
,
with
the
scourges
of
sicknesses
,
and
other
afflictions
;
that
holy
man
(
whom
some
conceiue
to
haue
bene
Saint
Basill
)
lift
vp
his
eyes
to
heauen
,
and
exclamed
saying
,
I
giue
thee
thankes
ô
celestiall
Father
,
and
Creatour
of
mankinde
,
for
that
thou
doest
vs
good
against
our
wills
;
that
is
,
thou
sendest
vs
infirmities
,
&
other
miseries
,
which
wee
would
not
haue
;
whereby
yet
thou
doest
good
to
our
soules
;
&
by
exercising
this
exteriour
man
,
which
is
the
body
,
thou
clensest
the
interiour
man
,
which
is
the
minde
;
and
thou
carriest
vs
on
towards
eternall
happines
,
by
aduersities
,
and
contradictions
to
our
gust
.
And
Saint
Gregory
addes
further
,
that
the
Saint
spoke
those
words
,
as
reioycing
and
delighting
in
his
sicknesse
.
This
diuine
effect
of
sicknesse
,
is
thus
declared
in
holy
scripture
by
the
mouth
of
the
wise
man
.
Prou.
20.
The
signe
of
the
hurt
,
and
the
secret
woundes
of
the
belly
,
doe
cure
mens
euills
.
His
meaning
is
,
that
both
the
exteriour
hurts
of
the
body
,
which
are
not
very
grieuous
;
and
those
also
which
are
deep
and
dangerous
,
and
doe
pierce
euen
into
the
most
inward
parte
of
the
bowells
,
doe
clense
the
soule
from
sinne
.
An
admirable
mercy
of
God
i●
this
,
and
a
most
singular
testimony
of
his
loue
,
and
of
the
most
ardent
desire
which
he
hath
of
our
saluation
.
For
man
being
forgetfull
of
himselfe
,
and
carelesse
of
his
saluation
,
and
in
stead
of
vertue
louing
vice
,
&
not
walking
on
towards
heauen
,
but
towards
hell
;
Almighty
God
is
pleased
to
visit
him
with
sicknesse
,
and
tribulation
against
his
will
;
whereby
he
makes
him
enter
into
himselfe
,
and
to
abhorre
the
sinne
which
he
loued
before
;
and
to
forsake
the
way
of
hell
,
wherin
he
was
going
;
and
to
pursue
the
way
of
heauen
,
which
he
had
left
;
and
to
fly
from
many
sinnes
,
into
which
formerly
he
had
fallen
.
This
is
that
mercy
of
God
,
which
Saint
Isidorus
ponders
saying
.
Almighty
God
,
seeing
that
many
men
will
not
reforme
themselues
vpon
the
motion
,
and
at
the
instance
of
their
owne
will
,
sends
them
aduersities
;
that
being
troubled
,
&
afflicted
,
they
may
be
amended
,
and
so
growe
to
loue
those
things
which
formerly
they
loued
not
.
And
finding
that
some
are
so
inclined
,
and
prompt
to
sinne
,
he
scourges
them
with
infirmities
of
the
body
,
to
the
end
that
they
may
giue
it
ouer
;
and
he
leaues
them
sicke
,
because
it
is
better
for
them
to
be
broken
by
sicknesse
,
and
paine
,
and
so
to
obtaine
the
eternall
saluation
of
their
soules
;
then
to
liue
full
of
health
,
and
full
of
sinne
;
and
so
to
walke
on
towards
hell
.
This
is
the
saying
of
Saint
Isidorus
.
And
because
sicknesse
doth
not
produce
so
excellent
,
and
diuine
effects
in
all
Christians
,
to
take
away
their
former
sinnes
,
and
to
hinder
such
as
are
future
;
but
onely
in
some
,
who
when
they
are
sicke
,
doe
enter
seriously
into
their
owne
hearts
,
and
haue
contrition
for
their
sinnes
,
and
change
their
liues
;
it
is
therefore
necessary
for
all
men
,
vpon
obseruing
that
they
are
sicke
,
to
open
the
eyes
of
their
soule
,
&
to
examine
their
consciences
well
,
and
to
consider
seriously
of
all
those
thinges
,
which
may
giue
impediment
to
their
saluation
;
and
confessing
their
sinnes
with
sorrow
,
giue
a
faithfull
account
of
all
to
their
ghostly
Father
;
&
instantly
put
all
things
in
order
,
with
great
diligence
,
which
concerne
the
amendment
and
reformation
of
their
liues
;
least
otherwise
that
sicknesse
which
God
did
send
a
man
with
loue
and
mercy
,
and
to
the
end
he
might
be
clensed
from
sinne
,
and
so
be
saued
;
doe
not
growe
to
serue
but
as
a
preface
and
beginning
of
those
endles
torments
,
which
are
to
be
suffeby
him
,
in
the
next
life
;
as
it
will
be
to
all
them
,
who
will
not
profit
by
the
sicknesses
which
God
sends
.
So
saith
the
same
Saint
.
The
scourge
of
aduersity
and
tribulation
,
doth
then
clense
the
soule
from
sinne
,
when
the
man
changes
his
manner
of
life
;
for
vnles
he
change
his
life
,
his
sinnes
remaine
where
they
were
.
So
that
,
vpon
the
whole
matter
,
euery
scourge
&
aduersity
,
which
God
sends
a
man
in
this
life
,
is
either
to
be
as
a
spirituall
Purgatory
for
his
sinnes
committed
,
and
of
the
penalty
to
which
he
is
subiect
for
the
same
;
or
els
it
will
serue
for
a
beginning
of
that
other
paine
,
which
he
is
to
suffer
afterward
.
For
certainly
,
the
paines
and
torments
which
are
eternally
to
be
suffred
by
some
,
in
the
life
to
come
,
are
begun
to
be
suffered
some
of
them
,
euen
in
this
life
.
The
truth
which
this
holy
Doctor
hath
drawen
out
of
holy
scripture
,
carries
great
force
with
it
:
and
the
Holy
Ghost
therein
doth
teach
vs
,
and
confirme
by
the
example
of
many
sinners
,
that
God
did
scourge
them
with
great
infirmities
;
and
because
they
profited
not
thereby
,
they
passed
on
from
temporall
paine
and
death
,
to
eternall
.
And
this
ought
to
moue
vs
much
,
to
receiue
any
sicknesse
,
as
a
most
pretious
gift
of
God
,
and
to
giue
him
great
thankes
for
it
,
and
to
profit
by
it
;
making
a
change
of
our
life
to
the
better
;
to
the
end
that
,
being
cleer
both
of
guilt
and
paine
,
we
may
make
a
short
and
certaine
entry
into
eternall
life
.
And
so
,
that
may
be
fulfilled
in
vs
,
which
Ecclesiasticus
chap.
3
saith
.
A
great
infirmity
of
the
body
makes
a
mans
minde
sober
;
that
is
,
it
cleers
it
from
sinne
,
and
doth
moderate
and
iustify
it
in
all
thinges
.
THE
VIII
.
CHAPTER
.
Of
other
great
benefits
,
which
are
drawen
from
corporall
infirmities
,
when
they
are
borne
with
Patience
.
BEsides
this
so
excellent
effect
of
clensing
and
freeing
the
soule
from
sinne
,
infirmity
of
the
body
vses
to
produce
diuers
others
,
which
are
very
high
,
&
of
incomparable
benefit
.
Which
dispose
the
soule
,
to
the
end
that
it
may
receiue
giftes
from
God
,
&
that
it
may
better
and
perfect
it selfe
more
in
vertue
,
and
increase
in
merit
;
and
that
it
may
praise
and
glorify
almighty
God
more
,
and
that
a
man
may
so
,
become
a
particular
instrument
of
the
glory
of
God
,
which
shines
in
him
,
either
by
his
freeing
him
from
that
sicknesse
with
particular
prouidence
,
and
loue
;
or
by
giuing
him
admirable
vertue
and
strength
,
wherby
to
endure
it
with
so
great
Patience
,
that
it
may
be
seen
how
it
is
God
,
who
helpes
him
to
endure
so
much
,
and
with
so
good
a
will
,
in
contemplation
of
eternall
life
.
Those
blinde
men
to
whom
Christ
our
Lord
gaue
their
sight
at
his
entry
and
issue
out
of
the
Citty
of
lericho
.
Luc.
18
Mat.
20.
had
neither
seen
his
miracles
,
nor
heard
his
doctrine
;
but
had
onely
met
with
the
fame
of
the
wonderfull
thinges
which
he
did
;
and
of
the
mercy
which
he
vsed
towards
all
;
and
thereby
they
grew
to
beleeue
in
him
,
with
so
great
faith
,
and
deuotion
,
that
,
before
all
those
troopes
,
which
followed
him
,
they
did
with
great
cries
,
confesse
him
to
be
the
true
Messias
,
and
the
Sauiour
of
the
world
,
saying
,
Iesus
thou
sonne
of
Dauid
haue
mercy
on
vs
.
And
after
,
when
they
receiued
their
sight
,
they
followed
our
Lord
,
praising
and
glorifying
God
.
Many
of
the
children
of
Israell
,
and
of
the
wise
and
prudent
men
of
the
people
,
had
heard
the
doctrine
of
Christ
our
Lord
,
and
seen
his
miracles
,
with
their
owne
eyes
,
&
yet
they
had
not
embraced
his
faith
,
nor
had
they
bene
moued
by
his
works
,
to
glorify
Almighty
God
;
whilest
yet
these
blinde
men
,
by
the
onely
fame
of
the
workes
of
Christ
our
Lord
,
which
had
come
to
their
eares
,
receiued
his
faith
,
and
glorified
and
confessed
our
Lord
.
And
the
cause
thereof
was
,
in
regard
that
the
blindenes
and
pouerty
of
these
men
,
made
them
more
capable
,
and
better
disposed
to
consent
to
those
diuine
inspirations
,
wherewith
Christ
our
Lord
toucht
their
hearts
,
and
called
them
,
to
receiue
the
light
of
faith
which
Christ
our
Lord
offered
them
;
as
also
to
the
end
that
the
fier
of
diuine
loue
,
might
more
easily
inflame
their
soules
with
true
deuotion
,
and
moue
them
to
glorify
the
diuine
Maiesty
.
The
Ghospell
expresses
not
,
that
Christ
our
Lord
did
pardon
their
sinnes
;
or
that
he
bad
them
sinne
no
more
,
as
he
had
done
to
other
sicke
persons
;
but
that
he
gaue
them
light
,
both
in
body
and
soule
,
to
the
end
that
they
might
see
and
beleeue
in
him
;
&
deuotion
,
wherewith
to
confesse
praise
&
follow
him
.
Vpon
which
wee
may
inferre
,
that
they
were
already
good
men
,
and
in
the
fauour
of
God
:
and
so
this
is
prooued
to
be
that
effect
of
sicknesse
,
which
wee
are
now
declaringe
;
Namely
that
it
disposes
such
as
are
good
,
to
receiue
new
giftes
from
God
,
and
to
better
them
,
and
perfect
them
,
by
their
growing
in
vertue
,
and
by
making
them
increase
in
merits
,
both
of
grace
and
glory
.
The
blessed
Euagrius
Bishop
of
Antioch
,
and
disciple
of
Saint
Macharius
,
relates
that
;
going
one
day
in
company
of
other
seruants
of
God
to
visit
that
most
holy
man
Iohn
a
Moncke
of
Aegypt
,
and
a
great
Prophet
,
and
much
reuerenced
by
the
Emperour
Theodosius
,
as
being
one
of
the
greatest
Saints
of
that
time
;
one
of
those
consorts
of
his
fell
sicke
of
a
violent
burning
feauer
;
and
besought
the
Saint
to
cure
him
.
But
the
Saint
made
him
answere
in
these
words
.
Thou
desirest
to
driue
that
from
thee
which
it
imports
thee
for
the
good
of
thy
soule
to
keepe
.
For
know
,
that
as
bodies
are
washed
,
and
clensed
with
salt-peter
,
and
other
thinges
of
that
nature
,
and
doe
so
become
more
beautifull
,
and
more
pleasing
to
the
eye
;
so
are
soules
more
clensed
by
corporall
sicknesse
,
&
made
more
beautifull
,
and
acceptable
to
the
eyes
of
God
.
Thus
said
this
Saint
.
And
this
is
the
effect
,
which
is
produced
by
sicknesse
,
in
good
men
;
Namely
that
the
soule
growes
thereby
in
purity
,
and
grace
,
and
in
all
those
vertues
,
whereby
they
are
to
please
and
serue
God
.
And
let
vs
now
cast
our
eyes
vpon
some
other
examples
,
which
may
declare
to
vs
,
how
sicknesse
makes
men
become
instruments
of
the
glory
of
God
,
that
so
his
power
and
goodnes
may
shine
more
in
them
.
When
Christ
our
Lord
was
curing
the
man
who
was
borne
blind
,
his
disciples
asked
him
,
10.9
.
what
sinne
it
was
,
which
had
caused
blindnes
in
that
man
,
whether
it
were
of
him
,
or
of
his
parents
.
Christ
our
Lord
made
them
,
this
answere
;
That
it
was
neither
for
his
,
nor
his
parents
sinne
;
but
to
the
end
that
the
workes
of
God
might
be
manifested
in
him
.
His
meaning
was
,
that
neither
the
actuall
sinne
of
him
,
nor
of
his
parents
,
was
the
cause
of
his
being
borne
blinde
:
nor
was
that
blindnes
imposed
on
him
in
punishment
of
any
sinne
,
which
either
his
parents
or
himselfe
had
committed
;
but
he
was
borne
blinde
by
the
good
will
of
God
,
to
the
end
that
by
giuing
him
sight
,
the
world
might
growe
to
see
those
workes
,
which
were
proper
to
the
diuinity
;
namely
the
working
of
Miracles
,
by
his
proper
vertue
,
which
might
testify
and
declare
,
that
he
who
wrought
them
,
was
true
God
.
By
these
wordes
,
did
Christ
our
Lord
discouer
his
vnspeakeable
goodnes
,
and
liberality
,
and
most
sweet
prouidence
,
which
sometimes
permittes
small
inconueniences
to
arriue
to
the
body
;
thereby
to
bestow
great
benedictions
vpon
the
soule
;
and
to
honour
his
seruants
,
after
an
extraordinary
manner
;
making
them
admirable
instruments
of
his
glory
:
as
he
proceeded
with
this
blinde
man
,
whom
he
made
blinde
,
to
the
end
that
,
deliuering
him
by
this
miracle
,
it
might
grow
publike
,
that
himselfe
was
the
true
God
and
Sauiour
of
the
world
;
and
that
as
such
,
he
might
be
beleeued
,
and
obeyed
,
and
glorified
,
both
by
that
blinde
man
,
who
receiued
the
benefit
,
and
by
all
those
others
also
,
who
would
profit
by
the
notice
thereof
.
And
so
by
imparting
a
great
blessing
to
the
soule
of
that
blinde
man
,
by
the
light
of
faith
,
&
grace
which
he
gaue
,
he
declared
the
glory
of
his
diuinity
.
Let
vs
produce
another
example
of
the
same
nature
.
When
Lazarus
was
fallen
sicke
,
his
sisters
sent
a
messenger
to
our
Lord
;
10.11
.
who
said
,
looke
heer
O
Lord
,
for
he
whom
thou
louest
is
sicke
.
Now
,
in
that
Lazarus
was
sicke
,
being
so
good
a
man
,
and
so
much
beloued
by
Christ
our
Lord
,
wee
are
taught
that
sicknesse
is
a
great
gift
,
which
God
not
onely
bestowes
vpon
sinners
for
their
conuersion
,
but
also
vpon
iust
and
holy
men
,
for
the
bettering
of
their
soules
,
and
for
their
encrease
in
grace
,
and
merit
;
and
therefore
when
God
sends
sicknesse
,
it
should
be
receiued
with
a
right
good
will
.
Saint
Augustine
saith
,
he
who
loues
God
,
loues
that
which
God
loues
;
and
therefore
it
is
,
that
he
loues
corporall
sicknesse
,
which
is
the
worke
and
gift
of
God
.
O
how
full
it
is
of
all
reason
,
that
a
man
who
is
the
seruant
of
God
,
should
receiue
that
sicknesse
which
God
sends
him
,
with
a
great
good
will
,
and
a
cheerfull
heart
!
If
a
man
being
sicke
,
God
should
giue
him
health
,
he
would
receiue
it
very
readily
,
and
with
much
ioy
and
thanksgiuing
;
and
yet
certainly
ought
he
to
receiue
that
sicknesse
,
wherewith
God
visits
him
:
with
greater
affection
,
and
thankesgiuing
:
as
being
a
most
profitable
gift
of
God
.
This
is
deliuered
by
Saint
Augustine
.
And
although
it
be
true
,
that
for
the
point
of
not
sinning
through
impatience
,
it
suffices
to
endure
,
and
beare
the
infirmity
,
without
desiring
to
be
quit
of
it
,
by
vnlawfull
meanes
,
(
as
wee
declared
before
;
)
yet
to
gaine
and
merit
much
more
therby
,
and
to
obtaine
greater
giftes
,
and
graces
from
God
,
a
man
,
as
Saint
Augustine
faith
,
must
receiue
it
with
much
contentment
,
and
with
a
very
affectuous
manner
of
thankesgiuing
.
And
it
is
fit
that
wee
proceed
after
this
manner
,
in
regard
that
sicknesse
is
of
much
greater
profit
to
many
seruants
of
God
,
then
health
would
be
;
and
it
is
a
great
gift
of
God
towards
all
;
&
giues
them
meanes
of
much
spirituall
good
;
and
for
this
reason
doth
God
giue
it
to
whom
he
loues
,
as
he
did
to
Lazarus
,
whom
he
loued
much
.
Our
Lord
hauing
receiued
this
message
from
the
two
fisters
,
said
to
them
who
brought
it
;
This
sicknesse
is
not
to
death
,
but
for
the
glory
of
God
;
and
to
the
end
that
the
sonne
of
God
may
be
glorified
by
occasion
therof
.
His
meaning
was
,
that
that
infirmity
was
not
to
end
in
death
;
because
,
though
the
man
were
to
dy
,
yet
he
was
not
to
continue
dead
;
but
shortly
to
returne
to
this
present
life
;
and
so
it
was
not
ordained
for
his
death
,
but
for
the
glory
of
God
.
And
the
particular
glory
of
God
,
to
which
it
was
ordained
,
was
,
that
the
son
of
God
,
might
be
glorified
by
occasion
of
that
sicknesse
,
&
death
which
followed
thereupon
;
he
giuing
life
to
the
dead
man
,
&
perfect
health
to
him
who
at
that
time
was
sicke
:
&
so
he
was
knowen
by
meanes
of
that
worke
with
faith
and
obedience
,
to
be
the
true
God
and
Sauiour
of
the
world
.
By
these
examples
did
Christ
our
Lord
discouer
to
vs
,
how
the
sicknesse
of
his
seruants
,
might
turne
to
his
glory
;
which
happens
sometimes
by
his
freeing
them
from
their
infirmities
,
and
from
the
dangers
&
paines
therof
,
of
,
by
such
particular
and
extraordinary
meanes
of
his
diuine
prouidence
,
as
greatly
serue
to
manifest
the
loue
and
care
,
which
he
hath
of
them
;
and
inuite
all
such
as
knowe
thereof
to
praise
,
and
loue
,
&
confide
in
his
goodnes
more
and
more
.
At
other
times
(
and
this
is
most
vsuall
)
this
is
performed
by
Christ
our
Lord
in
the
sicknesse
of
his
seruants
,
by
his
giuing
them
great
and
efficacious
fauours
,
&
succours
;
wherby
they
are
made
able
to
carry
their
infirmities
with
rare
Patience
,
&
with
admirable
contentment
.
And
so
,
whilest
they
are
sicke
,
they
performe
high
acts
,
and
of
great
seruice
to
God
;
by
meanes
wherof
,
thee
awake
,
and
prouoke
all
men
to
praise
and
glorify
Christ
our
Lord
,
for
working
such
wonders
in
his
seruants
.
This
so
pretious
fruite
of
sicknesse
,
is
excellently
described
,
by
that
diuine
Diadocus
,
in
these
wordes
.
As
,
for
the
making
of
a
good
impression
,
by
any
seale
vpon
waxe
,
it
is
necessary
first
,
to
soften
that
waxe
,
with
the
fingars
,
or
with
fier
;
so
,
to
the
end
that
the
seale
of
diuine
vertue
,
may
be
imprinted
vpon
the
soule
,
&
that
it
may
encrease
,
and
growe
perfect
in
vertue
,
and
in
the
gifts
of
God
,
it
is
necessary
that
it
be
exercised
,
and
refined
by
infirmities
,
and
many
other
tribulations
,
and
troubles
;
whereby
is
may
be
disposed
,
and
softened
,
for
receiuing
the
impression
of
this
diuine
seale
.
And
iust
,
as
in
the
primitiue
Church
,
God
wrought
this
glorious
effect
,
in
his
seruants
,
out
of
the
persetion
of
Tyrants
,
and
through
the
torments
,
wherwith
they
afflicted
,
and
martyred
Christians
;
so
now
doth
God
produce
the
same
effect
,
in
the
soules
of
his
seruants
,
by
meanes
of
temptations
,
and
interiour
assaults
of
the
diuell
;
as
also
of
exteriour
and
corporall
sicknesse
,
and
paine
.
I
say
,
that
in
place
of
persecutions
,
which
are
ceased
,
God
sends
them
the
affliction
of
temptations
in
their
soule
,
and
of
sicknesse
in
their
body
;
to
the
end
that
the
image
of
diuine
beauty
may
be
made
perfect
in
their
hearts
.
It
doth
therefore
much
import
,
that
wee
receiue
with
great
contentment
the
temptations
and
sicknesses
,
which
God
sends
vs
;
and
that
wee
giue
him
thankes
for
them
:
for
by
this
meanes
they
will
growe
to
be
a
kinde
of
martyrdome
to
vs
.
This
wee
are
taught
by
Saint
Diadocus
.
Let
vs
therefore
be
much
animated
,
to
receiue
any
infirmities
or
tribulations
,
which
God
may
send
vs
,
with
a
good
will
and
let
vs
be
content
to
suffer
them
as
long
as
it
shall
please
God
;
not
limiting
him
,
either
in
the
degree
,
or
quality
of
the
Crosse
;
nor
yet
in
the
time
,
that
it
is
to
last
.
For
it
is
God
who
knowes
,
what
is
conuenient
for
vs
to
endure
;
and
therfore
wee
must
remit
our selues
to
his
will
,
and
resigne
our selues
wholly
,
into
his
hands
.
For
if
(
as
Saint
Ephrem
saith
)
men
,
who
haue
beasts
,
vpon
which
they
cause
their
burdens
to
be
laid
and
carryed
from
one
place
to
another
,
doe
well
know
,
what
waight
or
burden
euery
one
of
them
is
able
to
beare
,
and
that
very
burden
doe
they
impose
,
and
no
greater
:
and
if
the
potter
,
who
makes
vesselles
of
clay
,
and
puts
them
into
the
furnace
of
fier
,
doth
well
know
how
long
they
are
to
be
kept
there
,
to
the
end
that
,
when
they
are
taken
forth
,
they
may
be
well
conditioned
,
and
tempered
,
and
profitable
to
the
vse
of
man
;
and
not
remaine
therein
more
time
,
then
is
conuenient
,
least
so
they
growe
to
be
burnt
vp
,
or
broken
;
nor
yet
lesse
time
then
is
necessary
,
least
so
,
they
be
taken
forth
too
soft
,
and
be
subiect
to
loose
the
forme
they
haue
:
how
much
more
doth
God
,
who
is
of
infinit
wisedome
and
goodnes
,
and
mainteines
a
most
exact
prouidence
ouer
all
his
creatures
,
and
especially
ouer
mankinde
,
know
that
iust
burden
of
sicknes
,
or
other
affliction
which
euery
one
is
able
to
vndergoe
,
&
beare
,
by
meanes
of
that
helpe
which
himselfe
is
pleased
to
affoard
;
as
also
the
time
,
during
which
it
is
fir
,
that
he
beare
it
?
Nor
will
he
impose
more
waight
,
then
a
man
can
carry
,
nor
let
it
continue
longer
time
,
then
it
is
fit
for
him
to
beare
it
;
to
the
end
that
he
may
growe
a
faithfull
&
true
seruant
of
his
,
and
may
be
capable
of
that
glory
,
which
from
all
eternity
,
he
had
prouided
for
him
.
A
most
certaine
truth
it
is
,
that
God
,
of
whom
the
holy
Scripture
saith
,
that
he
made
all
thinges
,
in
waight
number
,
and
measure
,
and
gouernes
them
all
with
so
great
suauity
,
and
who
well
knowes
the
quality
and
degree
of
that
infirmity
,
or
other
affliction
which
euery
one
is
able
to
beare
,
either
by
that
naturall
or
supernaturall
strength
,
which
he
hath
receiued
of
him
,
as
also
how
long
he
is
able
to
beare
it
;
will
not
impose
a
sicknes
,
or
other
Crosse
,
nor
permit
that
it
continue
any
longer
time
then
he
can
suffer
it
with
Patience
;
or
then
is
fit
for
the
good
of
his
soule
.
So
saith
Saint
Augustine
.
Be
not
troubled
about
thy
bodily
health
;
but
desire
thou
of
God
,
that
he
will
giue
thee
that
which
is
most
conuenient
for
thee
:
and
so
if
he
know
,
that
thy
health
will
be
good
for
thee
,
he
will
be
sure
to
giue
it
thee
;
and
if
he
giue
it
not
,
be
thou
well
assured
,
that
it
would
not
haue
bene
good
for
thee
.
Wee
see
many
,
who
being
sicke
,
conserue
themselues
cleane
from
sinne
;
who
if
they
had
bene
in
health
,
would
haue
comitted
many
:
and
many
men
being
in
health
,
deliuer
themselues
vp
to
great
wickednes
;
who
if
they
had
bene
sicke
,
would
haue
auoided
the
same
.
God
doth
well
know
what
is
fit
for
euery
one
.
In
this
let
vs
place
our
chief
care
,
that
our
soules
may
be
,
and
continue
whole
.
This
is
deliuered
to
vs
,
by
Saint
Augustine
.
Let
vs
therfore
herein
,
be
very
faithfull
and
true
to
God
,
and
very
obedient
to
his
diuine
will
:
&
let
vs
so
desire
health
,
or
any
other
conueniency
of
this
life
,
and
so
let
vs
beg
it
of
God
,
as
that
wee
may
yet
be
ready
still
,
to
receiue
any
sicknes
,
or
other
contradiction
,
at
his
holy
hand
,
whensoeuer
he
shall
be
pleased
to
send
it
;
since
our
suffering
these
things
with
Patience
,
serues
so
greatly
to
the
glory
of
God
,
&
to
the
good
of
our
soules
.
And
not
onely
,
when
the
inconuenience
which
happens
to
vs
,
is
very
great
,
let
vs
esteem
it
for
a
great
mercy
,
and
blessing
of
God
,
and
full
of
profit
to
our
soules
;
but
also
wee
must
thinke
highly
of
it
,
&
value
it
as
a
great
benefit
,
and
of
much
profit
and
merit
,
euen
when
the
sicknesse
is
not
great
.
For
,
as
the
diuine
Rusbrochius
saith
;
whatsoeuer
euill
of
punishment
,
(
how
light
soeuer
it
may
be
)
we
suffer
to
the
honour
and
glory
of
Almighty
God
,
will
be
of
greater
benefit
to
vs
,
then
if
he
had
giuen
vs
the
Empire
&
dominion
of
the
whole
world
.
For
whatsoeuer
euill
wee
suffer
with
Patience
,
for
the
glory
of
God
(
how
light
soeuer
it
may
be
)
God
doth
giue
vs
for
the
same
,
no
lesse
thing
,
then
himselfe
:
For
giuing
vs
his
grace
,
he
giues
vs
himselfe
with
it
;
and
so
possessing
the
gift
,
we
come
to
possesse
therewithall
,
that
Lord
himselfe
of
infinite
goodnes
,
who
giues
it
.
Our
Lord
will
not
permit
,
that
wee
should
suffer
aduersities
for
his
loue
,
without
much
profit
and
great
reward
:
and
so
,
by
meanes
of
that
which
wee
suffer
,
he
communicates
all
that
chief
fruite
of
his
most
sacred
Passion
,
which
are
those
spiritual
and
celestiall
blessings
,
through
which
we
possesse
God
heer
by
grace
,
&
afterward
by
eternall
glory
.
And
therfore
doth
God
giue
vs
afflictions
,
and
paines
in
this
life
;
not
because
our
affliction
or
paine
is
pleasing
to
him
;
but
for
that
incomparable
benefit
,
which
he
knowes
that
wee
ar
to
obtaine
by
meanes
herof
;
and
which
he
ordained
,
from
all
eternity
to
bestowe
vpon
vs
,
in
reward
of
that
Patience
,
wherwith
wee
beare
it
.
This
is
said
by
Rusbrochius
.
And
now
by
this
consideration
must
wee
faithfull
Christians
,
be
greatly
moued
,
and
encouraged
to
suffer
corporall
sicknesse
and
all
other
euills
of
punishment
,
with
great
contentment
.
For
,
if
the
diuell
(
as
Saint
Iohn
Chrysostome
saith
)
when
he
propoundes
to
the
heart
of
man
,
some
temporary
,
and
euen
momentary
delight
,
(
the
fruite
and
punishment
whereof
,
are
most
grieuous
and
eternall
torments
)
doth
induce
and
ouercome
him
so
farre
,
as
to
winne
him
to
expose
himselfe
to
so
great
a
misery
,
for
so
flender
a
delight
;
how
much
more
is
it
reason
,
that
wee
,
who
are
the
faithfull
seruants
of
Iesus
Christ
,
when
he
proposes
to
our
hearts
,
those
immense
and
eternall
ioyes
of
heauen
,
be
moued
and
perswaded
to
receiue
a
sicknes
,
or
some
other
light
and
short
trouble
and
to
endure
it
with
Patience
,
which
bringes
forth
such
fruite
,
and
reward
after
it
,
as
is
eternall
life
,
and
an
euerlasting
kingdom
of
glory
:
and
(
aboue
all
)
which
produces
the
fruite
of
pleasing
,
and
glorifying
Almighty
God
,
which
is
incomparably
the
greatest
reward
and
fruite
,
which
can
be
conceiued
.
THE
IX
.
CHAPTER
.
Wherein
it
is
confirmed
,
by
the
example
of
Saints
,
how
great
the
fruite
of
sicknes
,
and
other
tribulation
is
;
and
how
this
is
an
effect
of
Gods
mercy
,
which
he
she
was
towards
his
friends
.
BEcause
it
is
of
so
great
importance
to
haue
an
vnderstanding
,
&
feeling
of
this
truth
;
namely
that
it
is
a
worke
of
vnspeakable
loue
in
God
to
send
vs
sicknesses
and
other
afflictions
,
which
he
expresses
toward
his
greatest
friends
,
and
he
prooues
and
perfects
them
thereby
;
and
makes
them
worthy
of
most
beautifull
and
most
pretious
crownes
of
glory
,
wee
will
confirme
it
by
the
example
of
some
very
emiment
Saints
.
Timothy
,
that
holy
Bishop
,
and
the
disciple
of
Saint
Paule
,
was
sicke
of
a
paine
in
his
stomacke
,
1.
Tim.
5.
which
is
a
grieuous
and
irkesome
disease
,
and
had
also
many
other
infirmities
.
And
Saint
Paule
,
louing
him
much
,
and
very
tenderly
,
and
well
knowing
the
great
need
he
had
of
health
,
that
so
he
might
with
gust
,
vndergoe
all
those
difficulties
,
which
the
office
of
a
Bishop
exacted
at
his
hands
;
did
not
yet
take
away
this
sicknes
,
nor
desire
of
Almighty
God
that
it
be
taken
away
.
He
cured
other
sicke
persons
,
Act.
9.
and
that
with
so
great
facility
,
that
it
cost
him
no
more
them
to
put
of
his
girdle
,
or
to
take
out
some
handkercher
,
which
had
wiped
of
his
sweat
,
&
then
to
giue
it
,
that
it
might
be
laid
vpon
those
sicke
persons
,
and
instantly
the
men
were
cured
.
And
he
obtained
so
very
easily
that
which
he
vsed
to
aske
of
God
,
as
that
begging
once
the
liues
of
two
hundred
seauenty
and
six
persons
,
who
were
going
with
him
to
Rome
,
and
were
in
danger
of
perishing
by
the
way
,
God
did
grant
the
suite
,
and
freed
them
from
death
at
his
request
:
and
yet
to
this
disciple
of
his
,
whom
he
loued
so
much
,
he
neither
gaue
health
by
miracle
,
nor
did
he
beg
the
cure
of
God
;
but
permitted
him
to
continue
sicke
as
he
was
.
And
for
some
ease
in
those
infirmities
which
he
had
,
he
gaue
noe
other
than
that
ordinary
remedy
,
which
any
vulgar
friend
,
would
haue
prescribed
,
saying
:
doe
not
still
drinke
water
alone
,
but
take
a
little
wine
,
for
that
paine
of
stomacke
,
which
you
endure
;
and
for
the
many
other
infirmities
which
you
suffer
.
But
why
then
did
not
Saint
Paule
free
his
disciple
Timothy
from
these
sicknesses
?
Because
he
knew
,
that
they
were
great
testimonies
of
the
loue
which
God
bore
him
;
and
that
they
were
profitable
to
his
soule
,
by
occasioning
him
to
growe
in
Patience
and
humility
and
fauour
in
the
sight
of
God
.
Saint
Gregory
Nazianzen
had
many
and
grieuous
sicknesses
;
&
in
his
age
they
were
both
greater
,
&
grew
in
effect
to
be
continuall
.
Amongst
the
rest
,
he
had
the
goute
,
which
tormented
him
much
;
and
so
,
as
that
he
could
not
stirre
,
but
carryed
.
And
thus
,
howsoeuer
he
were
of
strong
constitution
,
his
many
acts
of
penance
,
and
continuall
infirmities
,
consumed
him
at
last
;
and
he
came
to
dy
,
at
the
age
of
65.
yeares
as
Caesar
Baronius
collects
by
the
writings
of
the
Saint
.
Notwithstanding
that
he
was
still
so
sicke
,
he
yet
laboured
much
;
and
by
those
labours
he
greatly
benefited
the
Church
;
and
by
his
infirmities
,
he
greatly
benefited
himselfe
,
for
he
carryed
them
with
Patience
,
&
had
much
comfort
therein
.
Saint
Basil
was
tormented
with
most
grieuous
sicknesses
;
and
sometimes
they
brought
him
to
the
very
dores
of
death
.
Yea
they
were
so
continuall
,
that
the
paine
he
suffered
,
when
he
was
best
in
health
,
might
passe
for
grieuous
sicknesse
in
another
.
Himselfe
in
his
Epistles
,
speaks
therof
;
and
in
one
of
them
he
saith
;
I
haue
had
many
sicknesses
,
and
one
of
then
hath
succeeded
another
;
and
now
I
am
also
sicke
,
and
there
is
scarce
an
houre
of
my
life
,
wherein
I
expect
not
my
death
.
And
in
another
letter
of
his
,
he
saith
;
If
when
I
am
best
,
(
according
to
the
apparance
,
I
haue
of
health
)
they
account
mee
amongst
them
who
are
giuen
ouer
;
from
thence
it
may
be
vnderstood
,
what
kinde
of
thing
I
am
,
when
I
am
fallen
into
an
expresse
disease
.
And
it
was
matter
of
great
admiration
,
that
vnder
the
waight
of
so
many
,
&
so
great
sicknesses
,
he
could
labour
so
hard
,
by
writing
,
disputing
,
preaching
,
gouerning
,
and
going
,
as
it
were
,
in
pilgrimage
,
to
preach
the
Ghospell
in
diuers
parts
of
the
world
;
&
that
being
so
wasted
with
such
paines
of
body
and
distempers
of
blood
,
he
should
not
slack
one
whit
in
the
care
,
and
solicitude
which
he
carryed
,
in
effect
,
to
all
the
Churches
of
the
East
;
which
were
mightly
persecuted
by
heretikes
.
And
by
meanes
of
these
infirmities
,
that
most
holy
Doctor
,
did
mightily
augment
the
merits
of
his
most
pure
life
.
Saint
Gregory
the
Pope
,
was
exercised
by
Almighty
God
,
with
extraordinary
infirmities
,
and
most
sharpe
paines
,
which
continued
a
long
time
with
him
.
He
had
certaine
seasons
of
the
goute
,
so
long
and
tedious
,
and
which
gaue
him
so
excessiue
paine
that
in
one
pang
thereof
it
continued
with
him
,
no
lesse
than
two
yeares
.
He
saith
thus
,
in
one
of
his
Epistles
,
I
haue
such
torment
by
the
goute
,
that
my
life
is
grieuous
to
mee
.
I
daily
faint
vnder
my
paine
,
and
I
expect
the
remedy
of
death
.
He
had
also
in
his
body
,
an
interiour
ardour
of
heate
,
which
did
,
as
it
were
euen
broyle
,
and
dry
vp
his
very
bowells
.
And
in
all
these
infirmities
,
and
torments
,
his
heart
was
in
such
conformity
to
the
wil
of
God
,
&
he
so
greatly
did
desire
to
suffer
them
,
that
he
sought
not
for
comfort
and
ease
of
his
miseries
in
this
life
,
but
onely
desired
it
for
the
next
.
And
he
esteemed
them
for
singular
blessings
,
and
gift
of
God
and
was
thankfull
for
them
as
being
such
;
as
he
declared
in
an
Epistle
which
he
wrote
to
Saint
Leander
,
Archbishop
of
Seuill
,
(
who
had
written
a
letter
to
him
,
wherein
amongst
other
thinges
he
tould
him
,
that
he
had
bene
much
tormented
by
the
goute
)
and
Saint
Gregory
answered
him
,
after
this
manner
.
You
tell
mee
that
you
are
tormented
by
the
goute
;
and
my selfe
am
also
vehemently
tormented
by
the
continuall
paine
of
the
same
disease
;
but
it
will
be
easy
for
vs
to
finde
comfort
in
these
miseries
,
if
wee
call
our
sinnes
to
minde
,
and
consider
that
wee
are
purged
from
them
,
by
these
infirmities
;
and
that
so
they
are
not
meer
scourges
of
God
,
but
blessings
also
,
whereby
his
diuine
Maiesty
doth
vs
so
much
good
.
With
such
Patience
as
this
,
did
Saint
Gregory
beare
his
sicknesses
;
and
so
they
were
of
great
helpe
to
him
,
for
the
obtaining
of
that
most
eminent
sanctity
,
and
most
profound
humility
,
and
of
that
most
plentifull
light
,
which
shined
in
his
most
holy
soule
.
Of
the
insufferable
infirmities
,
of
Saint
Iohn
Chrysostom
,
and
of
the
inuincible
Patience
,
and
constancy
wherewith
he
suffered
them
,
and
loued
them
;
and
of
the
great
merits
,
which
he
acquired
by
them
,
it
would
be
a
long
businesse
to
write
,
and
therefore
wee
will
remit
our selues
to
his
history
;
and
to
his
letters
,
where
he
speakes
of
them
.
Almighty
God
gaue
also
to
the
holy
Saint
Bernard
,
many
grieuous
,
and
dangerous
sicknesses
for
the
encrease
of
his
vertue
,
&
for
the
greater
purifying
of
his
life
.
And
yet
,
to
giue
more
encrease
to
the
paine
of
his
sickenesse
,
and
of
his
sanctity
thereby
,
God
ordained
,
so
that
such
remedies
as
were
giuen
him
for
the
ease
of
his
paine
,
should
prooue
to
be
of
greater
torment
to
him
.
For
a
certaine
holy
Bishop
,
a
friend
of
his
,
(
through
the
feare
he
had
,
least
the
Saint
would
not
there
be
cured
well
,
by
reason
of
the
rigour
,
which
he
was
wont
to
vse
against
himselfe
,
tooke
him
out
from
the
Monastery
,
wherein
then
he
was
,
and
deliuered
him
to
an
Infirmarian
;
who
through
ignorance
chanced
to
treate
him
so
ill
,
and
gaue
him
thinges
so
hurtfull
to
eate
,
and
so
painfull
to
take
;
that
euen
men
,
who
had
bene
healthy
and
hungry
,
would
haue
had
difficulty
therein
.
And
if
the
Saint
asked
for
one
thing
,
the
Infirmarian
gaue
him
an
other
,
very
contrary
to
that
wherof
he
had
need
.
Now
the
Saint
endured
these
sicknesses
,
and
this
ill
treatinge
with
so
great
Patience
,
that
he
neuer
complained
,
nor
vttered
so
much
as
any
one
word
of
disgust
;
but
obeyed
that
rude
fellow
,
in
all
thinges
,
as
any
very
obedient
subiect
would
doe
his
superiour
.
Saint
Hugh
,
the
Bishop
of
Lincolne
,
had
extreame
paines
in
his
side
,
which
to
any
other
man
,
would
haue
bene
of
great
impediment
,
in
the
exercise
of
the
Episcopall
function
;
but
he
suffered
them
with
so
great
Patience
,
and
strength
of
minde
,
that
he
laboured
with
that
afflicted
body
of
his
,
as
if
he
had
bene
perfectly
in
health
;
and
indeed
it
was
a
kinde
of
miraculous
thing
,
how
he
could
haue
strength
and
courage
to
doe
so
much
.
Saint
Dominicke
had
many
infirmities
,
and
extreame
paines
in
his
stomacke
,
and
yet
through
the
great
desire
which
he
had
to
suffer
,
and
well
decerning
,
that
those
were
particular
giftes
of
God
,
he
had
much
ioy
therein
.
And
though
whilest
he
was
sicke
,
they
did
diuers
thinges
of
much
contradiction
&
trouble
to
him
;
he
neuer
complained
,
nor
shewed
that
he
was
offended
thereby
,
but
gaue
God
thankes
for
all
.
Saint
Francis
,
besides
the
sicknesse
he
had
,
wherein
he
was
conuerted
to
God
,
had
after
eight
and
twenty
yeares
,
for
the
space
of
twenty
other
yeares
of
his
life
,
many
grieuous
sicknesses
;
and
he
suffered
extreme
paine
in
them
.
He
had
a
sorenes
of
eyes
,
which
put
him
to
extreame
trouble
;
and
once
,
through
the
paine
thereof
,
he
was
faine
to
be
shut
vp
fifty
dayes
,
without
being
once
able
to
behould
any
light
at
all
,
either
by
day
or
night
;
and
the
torment
was
so
great
,
that
he
could
take
no
rest
at
all
.
He
had
extreame
aches
in
his
head
,
in
his
side
,
and
in
his
spleen
,
&
he
had
also
great
burning
feauers
.
His
sicknesses
and
torments
were
such
,
that
he
had
not
a
parte
of
his
body
,
which
was
not
tormented
with
excessiue
paines
;
&
his
flesh
was
so
wasted
,
that
his
skinne
did
euen
cleaue
to
his
bones
.
And
besides
all
the
rest
of
his
infirmities
,
he
had
a
kinde
of
dropsy
in
his
feet
,
which
gaue
him
much
affliction
.
So
that
his
very
diseases
were
so
painfull
,
that
they
may
be
accounted
to
haue
brought
him
a
tedious
martyrdome
full
of
torment
.
Now
this
Saint
,
endured
these
infirmities
with
so
admirable
Patience
,
that
he
neuer
complained
of
them
;
nor
,
so
much
as
shewed
to
be
troubled
at
them
;
but
he
loued
them
,
and
reioyced
in
them
;
and
through
the
great
loue
which
he
bare
to
them
,
he
called
then
his
sisters
;
and
he
was
wont
to
say
,
I
giue
thee
thankes
,
ô
Lord
for
these
paines
;
and
I
beseech
thee
,
that
if
it
be
pleasing
to
thee
,
thou
giue
mee
a
hundred
times
as
much
;
&
this
shall
be
of
great
gust
to
me
.
For
the
gust
of
my
heart
,
consists
in
this
,
that
thy
will
may
be
accomplished
in
mee
.
Saint
Thomas
of
Aquine
had
great
sicknesses
.
He
suffred
grieuous
paines
in
his
stomacke
;
and
he
had
a
Fistula
in
one
of
his
legs
;
and
he
endured
these
infirmities
with
so
great
loue
of
God
,
and
desire
to
suffer
,
that
he
mortified
himself
,
by
forbearing
to
take
such
things
as
might
haue
giuen
him
gust
,
and
ease
.
Being
one
day
wholly
without
appetite
,
&
thinking
vpon
a
certeine
fish
,
whereof
he
might
well
haue
eaten
;
they
brought
it
:
but
he
,
to
mortify
his
sence
,
did
then
refuse
it
;
and
God
accepted
this
act
of
abnegation
at
his
hands
,
and
remedyed
his
necessity
by
other
meanes
.
The
blessed
Laurentius
Iustinianus
,
had
grieuous
and
dangerous
diseases
.
Once
they
thrust
a
hot
iron
through
his
necke
,
another
time
they
opened
a
parte
of
his
throat
,
with
a
razour
.
These
paines
were
extreame
,
and
the
Saint
endured
them
with
so
great
Patience
,
that
neither
did
he
complaine
,
nor
sigh
,
nor
made
any
shew
that
he
was
in
torment
;
but
remained
immoueable
,
as
if
it
had
not
bene
he
,
whom
they
burnt
and
wounded
,
but
some
other
man
.
That
which
happened
to
those
Saints
whom
wee
haue
mentioned
her
,
hath
happened
also
to
innumerable
others
;
namely
to
be
exercised
by
almighty
God
with
most
grieuous
sicknesses
,
to
endure
them
with
admirable
Patience
,
&
to
gather
inestimable
fruite
from
thence
.
THE
X.
CHAPTER
.
Of
the
fruite
of
the
encrease
of
Faith
,
and
Patience
,
which
wee
must
gather
from
the
Patience
,
which
the
Saints
haue
shewed
in
suffering
their
infirmities
and
paines
.
FIrst
we
may
drawe
from
hence
a
very
great
and
cleare
testimony
,
of
the
in
fallible
truth
of
the
most
holy
Religion
of
Christ
our
Lord
,
which
was
professed
by
all
those
Saints
.
For
to
suffer
so
grieuous
sicknesses
,
and
so
bitter
paines
,
so
many
yeares
,
with
so
inuincible
Patience
,
for
the
obtaining
of
spirituall
&
inuisible
benedictions
,
doth
incomparably
exceed
all
the
naturall
power
,
and
strength
of
man
.
And
so
wee
see
by
experience
,
that
men
,
who
are
voyd
of
the
Faith
of
Christ
our
Lord
,
can
not
beare
such
sicknesses
and
paines
with
true
Patience
;
but
they
faint
and
faile
of
courage
therein
;
and
they
fall
into
great
sorrowes
,
and
other
disorders
against
reason
:
and
some
goe
so
farre
as
to
despaire
.
Silicius
Italicus
a
most
worthy
man
amongst
the
Gentiles
,
and
of
great
wisedome
and
authority
who
had
bene
Proconsul
in
Asia
,
and
Consul
in
Rome
,
had
a
grieuous
sicknes
,
and
was
subiect
therein
to
much
paine
;
and
not
being
able
to
endure
it
,
and
being
seauenty
and
fiue
yeares
old
,
he
killed
himselfe
.
And
as
Cato
Vticensis
,
(
who
went
for
so
wise
a
man
)
not
being
able
to
endure
the
affront
of
being
held
to
be
ouercome
by
Caesar
,
killed
himselfe
,
to
be
free
from
that
affront
:
So
did
Silius
Italicus
,
kill
himselfe
to
be
freed
from
the
paine
of
his
sicknesse
,
which
he
was
not
able
to
endure
.
The
Gentiles
,
who
through
their
owne
fault
,
were
not
assisted
by
supernatural
fauours
from
God
for
the
suffering
of
such
paines
with
Patience
,
were
subiect
to
this
great
weakenes
,
and
impuissance
in
suffering
them
.
And
euen
amongst
Christians
,
they
who
are
not
in
the
grace
of
Christ
,
suffer
sicknesses
and
paines
with
great
difficulty
:
and
when
they
chance
to
be
very
great
,
men
doe
by
occasion
thereof
,
commit
many
sinnes
,
and
fall
into
much
disorder
against
the
vertue
of
Patience
.
Whereas
wee
see
,
that
Saints
and
the
seruants
of
Christ
our
Lord
,
endure
most
grieuous
sicknesses
,
and
intollerable
&
most
tedious
paines
,
with
so
great
Patience
,
that
they
loue
them
,
and
reioyce
in
them
,
and
thanke
God
for
them
.
And
al
the
power
of
the
sicknesse
,
and
the
fiercenes
of
the
paine
,
can
not
make
them
commit
any
little
errour
against
vertue
;
as
we
haue
proued
by
so
many
examples
.
It
is
therefore
a
most
clear
,
and
certaine
truth
,
that
these
men
are
greatly
assisted
,
and
strengthened
by
Almighty
God
,
as
true
faithfull
soules
,
and
seruants
of
his
;
and
that
they
are
exalted
by
supernaturall
fauours
,
both
to
doe
and
suffer
those
things
,
which
all
the
power
and
strength
of
humane
nature
,
can
by
no
meanes
doe
,
or
suffer
.
For
certainly
Patience
,
when
a
man
is
in
some
great
aduersity
,
is
a
gift
of
God
,
as
the
Psalmist
saith
,
Psal.
61.
Patience
comes
to
mee
from
our
Lord
.
And
S.
Augustine
thus
declares
the
reason
,
and
root
of
this
truth
.
Amongst
wicked
people
so
much
more
couragious
is
any
of
them
towards
the
enduring
the
inconueniences
of
this
life
,
as
there
aboundes
in
him
more
couetousnes
and
concupiscence
and
loue
of
the
world
,
in
regard
wherof
he
endures
them
:
&
amongst
iust
persons
,
so
much
the
more
couragious
is
any
such
man
to
suffer
paines
and
torments
,
as
he
hath
the
greater
charity
and
loue
of
God
in
him
,
for
whose
sake
he
suffers
them
.
The
loue
of
the
world
hath
his
roote
in
free
will
,
being
assisted
&
carryed
on
by
the
gust
and
delight
,
which
men
take
in
thinges
of
the
world
;
and
the
charity
,
and
loue
of
God
is
infused
by
God
himselfe
:
and
so
the
Patience
of
iust
men
,
is
a
gift
giuen
by
God
,
which
was
communicated
to
them
by
charity
,
whereby
they
exercise
true
Patience
.
The
second
fruite
,
which
wee
must
gather
from
hence
,
is
a
great
courage
and
heart
for
the
enduring
of
any
sicknes
,
or
afflictions
,
which
it
may
please
God
to
send
vs
;
as
also
a
firme
confidence
,
that
wee
shall
be
able
to
endure
them
by
Gods
grace
,
with
true
Patience
,
and
to
the
great
benefit
of
our
soules
.
We
know
well
indeed
,
that
wee
are
not
able
to
endure
them
by
the
only
strength
of
mans
nature
,
but
by
the
fauour
and
helpe
of
God
:
and
that
God
is
ready
to
impart
those
helpes
and
fauours
in
great
abundance
,
&
with
much
liberality
;
and
that
,
in
fine
,
he
will
bestow
them
vpon
vs
,
as
he
hath
done
to
all
his
Saints
and
true
seruants
.
For
so
the
eternall
God
(
who
is
truth
it selfe
)
hath
promised
,
and
so
hath
Christ
our
Lord
merited
for
vs
.
And
as
the
truth
of
God
cannot
faile
,
nor
the
merits
of
Christ
our
Lord
be
diminished
;
so
it
is
certaine
,
that
succour
cannot
be
wanting
to
vs
,
on
the
parte
of
God
,
if
wee
be
disposed
to
profit
by
it
.
Because
(
as
S.
Paule
saith
)
1.
Cor.
10.
God
is
faithfull
,
and
true
in
the
accomplishment
of
his
promises
:
and
will
not
permit
vs
to
be
tempted
with
any
affliction
,
or
temptation
which
may
be
too
heauy
for
vs
to
beare
,
and
maister
being
assisted
with
that
grace
,
and
fauour
from
heauen
,
which
he
is
ready
to
giue
vs
for
that
purpose
.
But
rather
he
will
take
care
,
that
in
the
time
of
the
temptation
or
tribulation
,
things
shal
succeed
in
such
sorte
,
either
by
encreasing
our
strength
,
or
by
diminishing
our
Crosse
,
as
that
wee
may
be
able
to
endure
it
;
yea
and
to
ouercome
it
at
good
ease
,
and
reape
much
fruite
,
and
merit
by
it
.
This
is
deliuered
by
Saint
Paule
.
And
since
,
after
the
example
of
Christ
our
Lord
,
and
of
his
Saints
,
wee
are
resolued
to
make
the
right
vse
of
these
helpes
from
God
,
and
to
serue
our selues
of
these
fauours
,
and
to
doe
on
our
parte
,
what
wee
can
;
wee
may
be
confident
&
assured
(
if
we
still
rely
vpon
that
succour
from
heauen
)
that
wee
shall
endure
sicknesses
and
all
other
Crosses
with
Patience
.
And
that
those
thinges
,
which
it
is
impossible
,
or
at
least
very
hard
for
our
naturall
weaknes
to
endure
,
will
be
made
easy
and
sweet
to
vs
by
these
helpes
from
heauen
;
namely
by
the
gifts
of
grace
,
and
those
diuine
consolations
,
which
God
will
impart
to
vs
;
to
the
end
that
wee
may
suffer
them
not
onely
with
Patience
,
but
euen
with
ioy
also
,
as
the
Saints
did
.
Not
onely
must
this
hope
encourage
vs
to
suffer
,
but
it
must
greatly
comfort
vs
therein
.
Saint
Saint
Basil
declared
it
by
these
words
.
In
the
time
of
our
tribulation
wee
must
not
seeke
for
helpe
at
the
hands
of
our
owne
strength
,
or
power
,
or
riches
,
or
authority
,
or
humane
glory
;
but
at
the
hands
of
God
,
who
giues
it
to
all
such
,
as
seeke
it
.
And
with
this
confidence
in
God
be
glad
if
thou
be
sicke
;
for
whom
God
loues
,
he
corrects
and
betters
by
sicknesse
:
and
if
thou
be
poore
,
be
glad
;
for
God
hath
prepared
eternall
blessings
for
thee
:
and
if
thou
suffer
any
affront
for
Christ
our
Lord
,
esteem
thy selfe
happy
therein
;
for
that
affront
will
be
changed
into
that
glory
,
which
the
Angells
enioy
.
Let
vs
therefore
resolue
our
selues
,
not
to
make
our
first
recourse
in
our
tribulations
to
humane
helpe
;
and
let
vs
not
rely
theron
,
but
haue
recourse
to
God
with
prayers
,
sighes
,
and
teares
.
Let
vs
place
our
confidence
in
him
,
and
expect
that
from
him
:
for
he
it
is
,
who
can
saue
vs
.
This
is
the
saying
of
Saint
Basil
.
And
by
this
very
reason
of
hope
,
doth
Saint
Peter
comfort
vs
saying
.
1.
Pet.
4.
Do
you
greatly
reioyce
,
since
you
communicate
with
Christ
our
Lord
in
his
afflictions
and
paines
,
by
suffering
in
imitation
of
him
,
to
the
end
that
when
after
this
life
the
glory
of
Christ
our
Lord
shall
be
manifested
in
heauen
,
you
may
also
be
made
partakers
thereof
,
and
may
exult
in
that
supreme
and
euerlasting
ioy
,
becoming
like
him
in
glory
,
as
you
haue
bene
in
paine
.
THE
XI
.
CHAPTER
.
Of
the
Patience
wherewith
discomforts
and
spirituall
desolations
,
are
to
be
endured
;
and
of
the
example
which
Christ
our
Lord
gaue
hereof
.
THese
ordinary
euills
of
paine
,
of
the
remedy
,
whereof
wee
haue
already
spoken
(
such
as
are
losse
of
goods
,
and
sicknesses
)
are
common
both
to
the
good
and
bad
;
but
there
is
another
euill
of
paine
,
which
vsually
doth
onely
happen
to
such
as
are
good
;
and
for
the
enduring
whereof
,
they
stand
in
great
necessity
to
learne
Patience
from
the
example
of
Christ
our
Lord
.
This
euill
,
are
those
discomforts
,
and
drynesses
,
and
spirituall
afflictions
,
which
God
is
wont
sometimes
,
to
impose
vpon
the
soules
of
such
,
as
do
most
cordially
serue
him
;
to
the
end
,
that
by
the
exercise
of
Patience
,
and
humility
,
they
may
grow
vp
in
vertue
,
and
serue
him
better
.
When
a
seruant
of
God
,
who
loues
him
much
,
doth
treate
and
conuerse
with
him
by
meanes
of
Prayer
and
Meditation
and
contemplation
,
and
gusteth
much
in
that
familiar
communication
&
commerce
with
God
,
he
findes
by
experience
the
vnspeakeable
dear
sweetnes
of
his
loue
;
he
enioyes
a
most
liuely
feeling
of
his
presence
,
his
goodnes
;
and
his
mercy
;
&
he
possesses
a
most
euident
and
ioyfull
hope
,
and
very
intire
promptitude
of
deuotion
.
Now
it
happens
sometimes
,
that
this
man
,
remaining
in
this
spirituall
paradise
,
and
passing
there
a
great
parte
of
his
pilgrimage
in
this
life
,
God
doth
so
ordaine
concerning
him
,
not
onely
sometimes
but
very
often
,
and
long
together
,
that
enabling
him
still
to
mainteine
and
hould
the
substantiall
parte
of
his
loue
,
which
consists
in
louing
that
which
he
loues
aboue
all
thinges
,
and
in
taking
contentment
therein
,
and
in
yeelding
obedience
to
his
commaundments
,
and
in
carying
a
hatred
against
all
sinnes
;
and
in
vsing
diligence
to
auoid
them
,
&
in
being
watchfull
and
attentiue
in
the
performing
of
all
good
workes
;
enabling
a
man
(
I
say
)
to
doe
all
this
,
God
yet
depriues
him
of
the
experimentall
knowledge
&
gust
,
which
he
had
of
him
,
and
of
his
goodnes
,
and
of
the
sweet
feeling
of
his
presence
,
and
of
the
facility
and
ease
which
he
was
wont
to
finde
in
treating
and
communicating
with
him
,
and
the
readines
of
his
deuotion
,
and
the
ioy
which
he
was
wont
to
take
in
his
hope
.
And
though
that
soule
remaine
still
in
grace
,
and
friendship
with
God
;
and
with
a
firme
determination
euer
to
serue
him
,
and
neuer
to
offend
him
;
yet
is
it
dry
withall
,
and
sad
and
discomfortable
,
and
full
of
feares
,
and
assaulted
by
dismaies
,
&
doubts
.
And
though
it
be
true
,
that
this
soule
hath
lost
nothing
in
point
of
vertue
,
or
of
the
merit
which
it
had
,
or
of
the
loue
wherewith
it
loued
God
and
was
beloued
by
him
;
yet
in
finding
it selfe
so
altered
,
it
feares
least
it
should
be
hated
and
abandoned
by
Almighty
God
.
This
is
the
greatest
tribulation
and
affliction
,
to
which
good
men
are
subiect
in
this
life
;
&
that
which
they
apprehend
most
:
and
Christ
our
Lord
discouered
both
the
inconuenience
,
and
the
remedy
in
the
holy
Ghospell
.
The
Apostles
were
full
of
comfort
in
the
society
of
Christ
our
Lord
,
Matt.
14.
Maro
.
6.
enioying
the
suauity
,
&
regalo
of
the
sight
of
his
presence
,
of
the
hearing
his
doctrine
,
and
of
the
fauour
&
priuilege
of
his
Miracles
.
And
our
Lord
hauing
once
wrought
that
Miracle
of
the
fiue
loaues
of
bread
,
whereby
he
had
so
particularly
giuen
them
comfort
,
and
done
them
honour
,
he
seperated
them
from
himselfe
;
comanding
them
to
imbarke
them selues
without
him
,
and
that
so
they
should
transport
them selues
,
to
the
other
side
of
that
sea
.
The
Apostles
found
this
to
be
a
very
vntoward
,
and
vnpleasing
businesse
;
and
notwithstanding
that
they
obeyed
,
yet
they
did
it
with
great
repugnance
,
the
thing
being
much
against
their
minde
.
This
was
noted
by
the
Euangelist
saying
.
He
compelled
and
constrained
his
disciples
that
they
should
enter
vpon
the
ship
,
without
him
;
which
is
as
much
as
to
say
,
he
made
them
enter
perforce
,
and
much
against
their
will
.
And
the
reasons
of
this
repugnance
in
them
was
first
,
because
they
would
faine
not
haue
wanted
that
sweet
presence
of
Christ
our
Lord
,
which
they
did
so
deatly
loue
.
For
so
saith
Saint
Chrisostome
.
Our
Lord
constrained
his
disciples
,
in
regard
it
was
a
thing
so
very
hard
for
them
to
depart
from
him
.
Which
grewe
,
without
doubt
,
from
that
great
ardour
of
affection
which
they
carried
towards
him
.
Another
reason
therof
might
be
the
feare
they
had
,
least
wanting
his
presence
and
fauour
,
some
trouble
or
danger
might
happen
to
them
at
sea
.
And
thus
also
saith
Saint
Hierome
.
The
disciples
had
reason
to
depart
vnwillingly
,
&
with
much
repugnance
from
our
Lord
,
for
feare
least
in
his
absence
they
might
sustaine
some
hurt
,
or
incurre
some
hazard
by
sea
.
The
disciples
being
departed
from
our
Lord
,
and
being
embarked
and
already
vnder
saile
,
there
rose
a
stiffe
and
contrary
winde
,
which
made
them
a
high
Sea
,
and
brought
a
great
storme
vpon
them
.
The
disciples
rowed
hard
,
but
could
not
aduance
their
backe
a
whit
;
and
so
passed
the
rest
of
that
day
,
and
all
the
night
following
in
great
labour
and
hazard
;
till
at
length
,
toward
the
morning
,
our
Lord
did
visit
and
comfort
them
,
&
make
the
tempest
cease
.
By
this
difficulty
the
disciples
knew
their
owne
weaknes
,
&
the
great
need
which
they
had
of
our
Lord
;
and
so
they
desired
his
presence
much
the
more
.
And
when
he
had
visited
them
,
&
freed
them
from
that
danger
,
they
grew
more
in
faith
,
&
hope
,
and
loue
of
him
;
and
so
casting
themselues
all
prostrate
at
his
feet
,
they
cried
thus
out
,
with
a
more
feruorous
faith
,
and
with
more
intire
deuotion
;
Thou
art
certainly
the
sonne
of
God
.
By
the
departure
which
Christ
our
Lord
caused
his
disciples
to
make
from
him
against
their
wil
,
he
taught
vs
,
how
sometimes
he
would
parte
his
faithfull
&
great
friends
,
who
serue
him
,
and
loue
him
,
and
haue
much
gust
in
his
presence
,
from
that
dear
company
of
his
.
Not
,
for
as
much
as
concernes
the
friendship
,
which
he
beares
them
,
nor
for
as
much
as
concernes
the
state
of
grace
wherein
they
liue
;
but
onely
concerning
the
sweet
comunication
which
they
had
with
him
,
and
the
ioy
and
comfort
which
they
felt
by
his
presence
.
And
this
he
doth
very
much
against
their
will
:
but
howsoeuer
,
he
doth
it
yet
for
their
good
;
to
the
end
that
they
may
growe
to
vnderstand
their
weakenes
better
,
and
what
poore
thinges
they
would
be
without
God
;
&
may
become
more
humble
,
and
distrustful
of
themselues
,
and
exercise
themselues
more
in
Patience
,
and
haue
a
greater
desire
and
make
a
greater
estimation
of
the
gifts
of
God
;
and
that
when
afterward
,
he
shall
visit
them
,
&
restore
them
to
the
gift
of
his
delightfull
and
dear
presence
,
they
may
grow
vp
in
faith
,
and
hope
and
loue
of
him
.
Thus
saith
Saint
Chrysostome
.
Our
Lord
suffered
his
disciples
to
labour
all
night
,
by
rowing
,
and
to
let
their
ship
be
tossed
from
one
side
to
the
other
;
that
so
they
might
desire
his
presence
so
much
the
more
;
and
that
the
feare
,
and
danger
of
shipwracke
being
passed
ouer
,
they
might
confide
the
more
in
him
,
and
carry
him
the
more
deeply
impressed
in
their
memory
,
and
their
heart
.
An
other
time
Christ
our
Lord
tooke
his
Apostles
with
him
,
and
he
put
himselfe
with
them
,
vpon
the
Sea
;
and
laid
himselfe
downe
to
sleepe
,
in
the
pup
of
the
ship
;
and
whilest
he
was
sleeping
,
there
rose
so
fierce
a
tempest
,
that
it
put
them
in
danger
of
perishing
.
And
they
,
conceiuing
that
because
our
Lord
was
sleeping
,
he
saw
not
the
perill
wherein
they
were
,
came
towards
him
,
and
awaked
him
saying
;
Saue
vs
Lord
,
for
wee
perish
.
Our
Lord
then
rose
vp
;
and
hauing
reproued
them
for
their
little
faith
,
he
made
the
tempest
cease
.
By
this
did
our
Lord
discouer
to
vs
the
same
mystery
,
although
in
other
termes
.
In
that
,
when
Christ
our
Lord
was
on
shipboard
with
his
disciples
,
a
tempest
rose
;
wee
are
taught
,
that
whilest
he
is
present
by
grace
with
his
seruants
,
who
are
iust
,
and
holy
men
;
the
tribulation
,
&
temptation
,
&
the
seeming
to
be
abandoned
by
Almighty
God
rises
vp
against
them
.
And
though
our
Lord
doe
well
discerne
the
affliction
wherein
they
are
,
and
hath
great
care
of
them
,
and
will
be
sure
,
not
to
let
them
perish
;
yet
to
their
thinking
,
he
hath
little
better
then
forgotten
them
;
and
it
seemes
to
them
,
as
if
they
were
forsaken
,
and
abandoned
by
him
,
and
that
they
are
in
great
danger
of
perishing
.
Now
our
Lord
proceeds
thus
with
them
,
for
their
greater
good
,
to
the
end
that
they
may
the
better
knowe
themselues
;
and
vnderstand
by
experience
of
how
little
strength
they
are
in
time
of
tribulation
;
and
that
,
being
freed
from
it
by
our
Lord
,
vpon
whom
they
call
,
they
might
the
better
iudge
of
the
assistance
and
fauour
which
he
affoardes
them
;
and
that
they
may
confide
more
in
him
,
and
more
admire
his
goodnes
and
power
and
diuine
prouidence
,
and
become
more
perfectly
subiect
to
his
heauenly
will
.
So
saith
Saint
Cyrill
.
Our
Lord
permitted
,
that
a
tempest
should
rise
,
for
the
exercising
of
the
Apostles
in
vertue
;
and
that
knowing
and
confessing
the
danger
,
wherein
they
were
,
they
might
frame
the
higher
conceit
of
the
power
of
the
power
of
the
same
Lord
;
&
might
resorte
to
him
,
and
place
all
their
confidence
in
him
.
And
although
they
were
in
so
great
feare
of
perishing
,
yet
in
very
deed
they
were
safe
;
nor
was
it
possible
that
they
should
be
lost
,
hauing
that
omnipotent
Lord
so
present
with
them
as
they
had
.
This
is
deliuered
by
Saint
Cyrill
.
But
that
example
of
Christ
our
Lord
,
which
is
most
proper
to
comfort
his
seruants
in
this
kinde
of
tribulation
,
and
to
animate
vs
to
suffer
it
with
Patience
,
is
that
abandoning
by
the
eternall
Father
,
which
Christ
our
Lord
endured
vpon
the
Crosse
;
which
he
declared
when
he
said
thus
,
My
God
,
my
God
,
why
hast
thou
forsaken
mee
?
The
eternall
Father
had
not
forsaken
him
,
for
as
much
as
concerned
the
grace
and
glory
of
his
soule
;
nor
for
as
much
as
concerned
the
vnion
of
the
humane
and
diuine
natures
in
him
;
but
he
abandoned
him
(
according
to
what
we
haue
already
declared
)
for
as
much
as
concerned
the
sensible
ease
and
comfort
,
which
might
flowe
from
the
superiour
parte
of
his
soule
,
to
the
inferiour
parte
of
the
same
soule
,
and
to
the
sensitiue
parte
of
the
body
,
which
he
suspended
,
and
deteined
,
to
the
end
that
it
might
not
redound
vpon
it
,
nor
be
communicated
to
it
;
that
so
the
paine
of
his
Passion
,
might
be
the
more
pure
,
more
grieuous
,
and
more
hard
to
be
endured
.
By
this
abandoning
,
&
disconfort
of
Christ
our
Lord
,
all
the
seruants
of
God
are
to
be
hartened
,
and
comforted
in
this
kind
of
affliction
of
drynes
and
desolation
;
considering
,
and
discoursing
with
great
waight
of
reason
after
this
manner
.
Since
the
eternall
Father
,
did
abandon
his
Sonne
in
his
Passion
,
whom
he
infinitely
loued
;
depriuing
him
of
all
sensible
ease
and
comfort
:
and
since
the
Sonne
himselfe
,
would
also
haue
it
so
,
to
the
end
that
he
might
suffer
so
much
the
more
for
the
loue
of
man
;
most
iust
it
is
,
and
most
reasonable
,
that
the
men
of
God
who
are
members
of
the
same
Christ
,
be
also
depriued
at
some
time
of
sensible
conforts
;
and
that
they
may
be
afflicted
,
and
forsaken
,
to
the
end
that
they
may
resemble
Christ
himselfe
;
and
that
the
parts
of
the
body
may
be
like
the
head
.
Yea
it
is
most
reasonable
that
they
should
suffer
this
discomfort
and
desolation
euen
gladly
and
with
gust
,
for
the
loue
of
the
same
Lord
.
Let
them
also
consider
,
that
as
Christ
our
Lord
(
though
he
were
abandoned
by
his
Father
)
departed
not
as
he
was
man
,
from
the
vnion
which
he
had
with
him
by
loue
;
nor
from
the
vnion
,
which
he
had
with
the
diuinity
;
nor
did
he
loose
one
iote
of
the
infinite
grace
,
and
immense
glory
,
which
he
had
in
his
most
holy
soule
:
so
also
his
seruants
(
though
they
want
those
spirituall
feelings
,
and
sensible
comforts
,
&
though
they
be
molested
and
afflicted
)
are
not
therfore
departed
from
the
amity
&
vnion
with
God
;
nor
haue
they
lost
any
parte
at
all
of
his
grace
and
loue
;
but
they
continue
still
his
friends
,
and
still
are
pleasing
in
his
sight
;
but
by
this
exercise
of
humility
,
and
Patience
,
they
growe
vp
in
all
vertue
,
and
merit
,
both
of
grace
and
glory
.
Most
excellently
doth
Iustus
Lanspergius
thus
describe
these
afflicted
seruants
of
God
,
of
whom
he
had
knowen
many
by
experience
.
Wee
finde
many
friends
of
God
in
this
world
,
who
want
all
that
sensible
confort
in
all
the
spirituall
exercises
of
deuotion
,
which
they
were
wont
to
enioy
;
so
farre
,
as
that
sometimes
they
can
hardly
once
raise
their
spirit
vp
to
God
;
and
by
a
secret
dispensation
of
Gods
prouidence
,
they
seem
to
be
(
as
it
were
)
oppressed
,
with
a
great
obscurity
of
heart
.
And
,
notwithstanding
all
this
,
for
as
much
as
concernes
the
substance
of
vertue
,
they
haue
it
,
with
a
great
feare
to
offend
God
;
&
they
fly
from
al
kinde
of
sinne
,
whether
it
be
great
or
small
,
with
much
care
;
and
they
watch
very
attentiuely
,
and
keep
straight
ward
vpon
their
hearts
,
for
mainteining
the
purity
of
their
conscience
;
complying
exactly
in
all
those
thinges
,
which
they
vnderstand
to
concerne
the
will
of
God
;
and
they
are
truly
mortified
,
and
humble
.
Such
persons
as
these
,
although
they
haue
not
those
feelings
of
loue
,
and
sensible
deuotion
,
haue
yet
a
true
and
liuely
faith
,
whereby
they
liue
,
and
direct
their
course
;
&
they
are
certainly
great
friendes
of
God
,
though
themselues
doe
not
vnderstand
it
so
.
This
is
said
by
Lanspergius
.
Let
therefore
the
seruants
of
God
,
be
comforted
in
this
kinde
of
tribulation
,
and
be
encouraged
to
beare
it
,
with
Patience
;
resoluing
to
take
it
at
the
hand
of
God
;
and
resigning
themselues
to
his
diuine
will
;
to
the
end
that
he
may
doe
,
and
dispose
of
them
,
as
shall
be
most
pleasing
to
himself
.
And
let
them
remaine
firmly
perswaded
in
their
very
hearts
,
that
so
long
as
they
conserue
a
hatred
against
sinne
,
and
a
firme
resolution
to
comply
with
the
commaundments
of
God
,
(
and
that
chiefly
for
the
loue
of
him
,
and
through
an
effectuall
desire
and
will
to
please
God
in
those
thinges
which
he
hath
ordained
)
although
they
be
much
afflicted
withall
,
and
loue
without
any
comfort
or
sensible
feeling
of
deuotion
,
yet
in
truth
they
are
the
friends
of
God
;
they
are
in
the
state
of
grace
;
they
walke
on
towards
saluation
,
&
eternall
life
;
they
are
pleasing
to
God
by
their
good
workes
;
and
he
will
neuer
abandon
or
forsake
them
.
For
thus
hath
he
promised
,
to
such
as
with
loue
perseuer
in
his
seruice
,
saying
to
euery
one
of
them
as
he
said
Iosue
1.
and
Heb.
13.
I
will
not
forsake
thee
,
nor
take
my
hand
off
,
from
thy
defence
.
THE
XII
.
CHAPTER
.
Of
the
necessity
,
and
fruite
of
Patience
;
and
how
it
is
a
signe
of
the
elect
and
predestinated
of
God
.
BY
many
waies
did
Christ
our
Lord
declare
the
great
fruites
and
merits
of
Patience
,
in
his
holy
Ghospell
;
First
by
hauing
ordained
,
that
tribulations
and
aduersities
should
be
the
way
to
heauen
;
which
cannot
be
well
borne
,
and
without
disaduantage
to
the
soule
,
but
by
the
vertue
of
Patience
.
This
ordination
of
his
did
he
discouer
to
vs
,
in
that
himself
being
come
into
this
world
to
saue
it
,
and
to
restore
man
to
the
grace
,
&
glory
of
the
eternall
Father
,
which
man
had
lost
by
sinne
,
he
was
pleased
,
that
his
most
holy
life
should
be
assaulted
and
exercised
(
from
the
first
instant
of
his
birth
,
to
the
last
when
he
expired
vpon
the
crosse
)
by
many
persecutions
,
&
aduersities
of
many
kindes
.
And
this
is
that
,
which
was
signified
by
Simeon
,
Luc.
2.
when
taking
the
infant
Iesus
into
his
armes
,
he
said
to
the
Virgin
;
This
infant
shall
be
set
vp
for
a
signe
,
which
shall
be
contradicted
.
Christ
our
Lord
was
the
signe
of
mans
reconciliation
to
God
,
and
of
the
pardon
of
sinne
,
and
of
eternal
life
:
for
Christ
our
Lord
wrought
all
this
.
And
as
a
cause
is
a
signe
of
the
effect
,
so
Christ
our
Lord
,
was
the
signe
of
all
the
good
,
which
came
to
man
;
and
of
that
mercy
and
loue
,
which
God
shewed
him
:
but
yet
withall
,
he
was
a
signe
contradicted
,
by
the
diuell
,
and
by
the
world
.
A
signe
he
was
,
against
which
al
the
louers
of
the
world
,
and
all
maligne
spirits
did
,
by
their
meanes
,
dart
forth
the
arrowes
of
persecutions
,
of
iniuries
,
of
torments
,
and
contradictions
,
both
in
word
&
deed
.
This
is
that
way
,
which
Christ
our
Lord
chose
for
himselfe
in
this
world
:
and
since
all
the
elect
,
and
predestinated
of
God
,
are
to
be
like
Christ
our
Lord
(
as
Saint
Paul
.
Ro.
8.
declareth
saying
,
They
whom
God
elected
and
approued
from
al
eternity
,
he
ordained
that
they
should
be
like
his
sonne
,
who
is
the
perfect
image
of
the
eternall
Father
)
it
followeth
,
that
they
all
must
walke
in
the
way
of
tribulations
and
aduersities
,
as
Christ
our
Lord
did
;
to
the
end
that
being
partakers
of
his
Passion
,
they
may
also
partake
the
honour
of
the
sonnes
of
God
,
&
the
glory
of
being
kings
in
heauen
.
This
is
explicated
by
Saint
Gregory
,
in
these
words
.
He
asketh
what
is
the
reason
,
why
God
afflicts
and
abases
them
in
this
life
,
imposing
contempt
,
and
paine
vpon
them
,
whom
he
hath
elected
from
all
eternity
,
to
become
so
very
high
and
glorious
in
the
Kingdome
of
heauen
.
And
he
answeres
his
owne
question
thus
;
Because
God
sees
that
he
is
to
recompence
,
and
reward
men
with
such
immense
and
eternall
benedictions
in
heauen
,
for
this
very
cause
doth
he
afflict
them
,
concerning
these
inferiour
things
of
the
earth
;
depriuing
them
of
things
of
small
value
,
and
inflicting
paines
vpon
them
,
which
last
not
long
.
Since
therefore
it
is
so
certainly
true
,
that
a
man
can
not
beare
the
aduersities
of
this
life
to
the
profit
of
his
soule
,
and
with
the
fruite
of
vertue
,
and
the
merit
of
eternall
glory
,
but
by
fortifying
his
heart
through
the
the
vertue
of
Patience
;
it
followes
,
that
Patience
is
that
thing
,
which
carries
men
on
with
security
,
and
certeinty
,
through
the
right
way
to
heauen
,
which
is
that
of
tribulations
;
and
that
consequently
,
the
same
Patience
is
the
marke
of
such
as
are
elected
,
and
predestinated
by
Almighty
God
.
For
all
men
both
good
,
and
bad
,
haue
aduersities
&
tribulations
in
this
l●…
,
though
some
more
,
then
others
;
and
therefore
the
onely
hauing
them
,
is
no
signe
of
predestination
;
but
the
suffering
them
with
Patience
,
that
indeed
is
the
signe
,
which
distinguishes
them
,
who
are
elected
and
predestinated
,
from
such
others
as
are
not
so
.
This
did
holy
Iudith
lib.
Iud.
c.
●
.
confesse
saying
,
that
all
they
who
haue
bene
pleasing
to
God
,
haue
passed
faithfully
through
many
tribulations
.
He
saith
not
that
they
only
had
tribulations
,
but
that
they
perseuered
,
faithful
therein
to
God
,
and
obedient
to
his
diuine
will
;
which
signifies
,
that
they
exercised
true
Patience
,
in
their
tribulations
.
This
very
ordination
did
our
Lord
discouer
also
,
in
that
being
able
to
cast
all
those
damned
spirits
into
the
bottomles
abisse
of
hell
,
and
to
keepe
them
shut
vp
there
till
the
end
of
the
world
,
without
giuing
then
power
to
goe
once
out
from
thence
;
yet
he
doth
not
so
,
but
allowes
them
liberty
to
goe
forth
,
&
to
remaine
in
the
aire
amongst
men
;
though
yet
withall
,
(
for
as
much
as
concernes
themselues
)
they
carry
the
very
paine
of
hell
about
them
.
Of
this
wee
haue
a
testimony
in
the
Ghospell
.
For
Christ
our
Lord
being
in
the
company
of
the
Gerasens
,
Luc.
8.
and
hauing
cast
a
legion
of
diuels
out
of
a
certaine
man
;
they
besought
him
,
not
to
cast
them
into
hell
,
which
he
graunted
,
&
so
he
gaue
them
liberty
to
possesse
a
heard
of
swine
,
which
they
drowned
.
And
that
liberty
,
which
our
Lord
gaue
to
those
diuels
,
to
remaine
here
amongst
men
,
he
allowes
to
innumerable
others
;
&
he
doth
it
,
to
the
end
that
they
may
assault
men
with
seuerall
temptations
;
that
so
they
may
exercise
Patience
,
and
humility
,
by
suffering
their
attempts
;
and
by
ouercoming
the
persecution
of
the
diuells
.
So
saith
Saint
Chrysostome
.
The
diuells
desired
of
Christ
our
Lord
,
that
he
would
not
cast
them
downe
into
that
bottome
,
that
is
,
out
of
the
world
into
that
darkenes
and
Abisse
of
Hell
,
as
the
diuells
had
deserued
;
and
our
Lord
forbore
to
cast
them
downe
,
and
suffered
them
to
remaine
in
this
world
,
to
the
end
that
vertuous
men
might
not
loose
those
crownes
of
glory
,
which
they
were
to
gaine
,
by
resisting
those
diuells
,
and
by
fighting
with
them
,
and
ouercoming
their
temptations
.
Since
therefore
for
the
suffering
of
the
persecutions
,
&
vexations
of
diuells
,
&
resisting
their
temptations
,
and
continuing
in
combate
against
them
,
the
vertue
of
Patience
is
so
necessary
;
it
followes
that
it
is
the
fruite
and
effect
of
Patience
,
to
conserue
the
soule
in
such
sorte
,
as
that
it
may
receiue
no
hurt
from
temptations
,
and
assaults
of
the
diuell
;
and
to
encrease
their
merits
in
heauen
,
by
the
victory
ouer
those
temptations
;
and
thereby
to
manifest
by
an
experimentall
way
,
who
are
truly
iust
,
and
elect
of
God
.
So
doth
the
holy
scripture
declare
to
vs
in
many
places
.
It
saith
in
Ecclesiasticus
,
c.
27.
As
the
furnace
of
fier
,
tries
the
pots
of
the
potter
,
so
doth
temptation
and
tribulation
try
iust
men
.
The
meaning
is
,
that
as
the
hot
burning
furnace
doth
examine
and
declare
which
vessells
are
good
and
fitly
tempered
,
and
which
indeed
are
they
,
which
being
cast
into
the
fier
,
are
not
cracht
or
broken
therby
,
but
remaine
hard
and
whole
,
and
fit
for
the
vse
of
man
;
and
as
it
doth
also
shew
,
which
other
of
them
are
ill
made
,
for
they
cracke
,
and
breake
,
in
the
hot
furnace
;
so
doth
temptation
and
tribulation
,
whether
it
be
offered
by
diuels
or
by
men
,
declare
and
shew
who
are
iust
,
and
holy
.
And
these
are
they
,
who
through
the
euills
and
temptations
which
they
endure
,
are
not
broken
or
ouercome
by
impatience
,
or
other
sinnes
;
but
through
the
vertue
of
Patience
,
perseuer
firme
and
constant
,
in
the
practise
of
vertue
,
and
the
keeping
of
the
lawe
of
God
.
THE
XIII
.
CHAPTER
.
How
pleasing
the
vertue
of
Patience
is
to
God
,
and
of
the
great
fauours
which
he
affoardes
them
,
who
suffer
with
Patience
.
ANother
way
,
whereby
Christ
our
Lord
declared
the
fruit
,
and
merit
of
Patience
,
is
,
the
particular
fauours
&
extraordinary
benefits
,
which
he
vouchsafed
to
to
men
,
who
suffered
aduersity
,
with
Patience
.
Christ
our
Lord
came
to
the
Piscina
of
Hierusalem
,
and
amongst
so
many
sicke
persons
as
he
found
there
,
he
imparted
only
to
one
of
them
,
who
had
remained
there
sicke
eight
&
thirty
yeares
,
so
great
a
fauour
,
and
so
illustrious
a
benefit
,
as
it
was
,
both
to
cure
his
body
,
and
to
iustify
his
soule
.
And
the
cause
,
why
our
Lord
bestowed
this
blessing
,
rather
vpon
him
,
then
any
of
the
rest
,
was
because
he
endured
his
sicknesse
,
with
more
Patience
then
others
.
As
is
plaine
,
in
that
he
,
hauing
bene
sicke
so
many
yeares
,
made
no
complaint
,
but
answered
so
meekly
to
what
was
asked
.
Saint
Chrysostome
obserues
this
,
and
saith
;
Christ
our
Lord
,
Io.
5.
did
not
aske
the
sicke
man
if
he
had
any
desire
to
be
cured
,
as
if
he
had
doubted
of
his
will
;
but
only
for
the
manifesting
of
his
Patience
,
who
hauing
been
eight
and
thirty
yeares
,
and
daily
hoping
for
health
,
which
he
could
not
finde
,
did
yet
neuerthelesse
continue
without
going
away
,
and
despaired
not
being
there
;
&
to
teach
vs
also
,
that
the
reason
why
he
cured
rather
him
then
others
,
was
his
great
Patience
.
Let
vs
declare
another
example
to
the
same
purpose
.
Christ
our
Lord
Io.
9.
cured
a
man
,
who
was
borne
blinde
;
and
for
the
constancy
,
where
with
he
confessed
the
same
Lord
,
and
defended
his
truth
,
the
Pharisees
did
persecute
,
and
affront
him
,
both
by
word
and
deed
;
and
they
cast
him
,
as
an
excommunicate
person
,
out
of
the
Sinagogue
.
The
good
man
obeyed
this
vniust
comandment
,
&
endured
that
wrong
with
Patience
;
and
Christ
our
Lord
,
who
knew
it
al
,
seeing
the
affliction
wherein
his
faithfull
seruant
was
,
&
the
Patience
wherewith
he
bore
it
,
sought
him
out
of
set
purpose
,
and
spake
to
him
after
this
manner
,
with
great
affability
&
loue
.
Doest
thou
beleeue
in
the
sonne
of
God
?
which
was
as
much
as
to
say
;
Wilt
thou
beleeue
,
that
he
who
cured
thee
,
is
the
true
sonne
of
God
?
And
euen
as
he
was
speaking
these
wordes
,
he
did
withall
infuse
a
most
excellent
clear
light
into
the
most
inward
part
of
his
soule
,
to
make
him
know
and
beleeue
,
that
he
who
had
cured
him
,
was
not
onely
a
Prophet
,
and
a
Saint
(
as
already
he
had
confessed
him
to
be
)
but
also
the
true
,
and
naturall
sonne
of
God
;
for
the
question
did
import
so
much
.
And
so
he
beleeued
,
and
asked
;
Who
is
he
O
Lord
?
And
that
Lord
answered
him
thus
.
It
is
euen
he
who
is
speaking
with
thee
.
Then
instantly
he
fell
prostrate
,
&
adored
him
.
This
so
admirable
fauour
,
to
seeke
him
,
and
comfort
him
,
and
honour
him
,
and
communicate
so
great
light
of
faith
&
grace
to
him
,
did
God
vouchsaffe
to
this
man
,
for
his
hauing
been
so
faithfull
in
confessing
him
,
and
so
patient
in
suffering
that
wrong
,
which
they
had
done
him
in
regard
of
Christ
our
Lord
.
So
saith
Saint
Chrysostome
they
who
with
Patience
suffer
the
iniuries
which
are
imposed
on
them
,
for
mainteining
the
truth
of
Christ
our
Lord
,
these
men
are
greatly
fauoured
,
and
honoured
by
him
;
as
wee
see
by
the
example
of
the
blinde
man
,
whom
the
Iewes
cast
out
of
the
Temple
:
for
the
Lord
of
the
very
temple
sought
him
out
,
&
he
receiued
him
with
great
loue
;
and
,
as
a
soldier
who
had
fought
valiantly
,
he
crowned
him
with
a
crowne
of
inestimable
worth
and
beauty
;
such
as
was
the
eminent
grace
,
&
pawne
of
heauen
,
which
he
bestowed
vpon
him
.
So
great
account
as
this
doth
Christ
our
Lord
make
of
a
faithfull
,
and
patient
man
;
and
so
much
doth
he
esteem
him
,
that
omitting
many
others
,
he
seekes
him
out
with
care
,
he
comforts
him
by
his
words
,
he
ioyes
his
heart
by
his
presence
,
he
honours
him
by
his
fauours
,
and
he
aduances
him
by
his
gifts
.
This
doth
Saint
Thomas
obserue
in
these
words
.
The
Euangelist
,
by
relating
,
that
Christ
our
Lord
sought
out
the
blinde
man
,
whom
he
had
cured
,
giues
vs
to
vnderstand
,
that
he
was
diligent
in
harkening
him
out
,
because
he
found
more
faith
and
vertue
in
him
,
then
in
others
;
whereby
wee
may
inferre
,
that
he
more
esteems
one
iust
person
,
than
ten
thousand
sinners
.
This
wee
are
tould
by
S.
Thomas
.
And
though
it
be
no
exaggeration
at
all
,
to
say
that
God
doth
more
loue
one
iust
man
,
than
the
whole
world
of
sinners
put
together
(
since
absolutely
speaking
he
onely
loues
such
as
are
iust
,
with
the
loue
of
grace
;
)
yet
considering
how
greatly
God
esteems
the
saluation
euen
of
sinners
,
and
the
care
he
hath
to
conuert
them
,
to
say
that
God
more
loues
to
saue
&
fauour
one
iust
man
then
many
thousand
of
sinners
,
is
no
sleight
expression
,
but
doth
greatly
discouer
the
particular
prouidence
and
care
,
which
God
carries
towards
iust
persons
;
and
it
giues
matter
also
of
much
confidence
to
them
who
serue
him
,
that
through
his
goodnes
they
are
to
be
greatly
fauoured
,
and
assisted
by
him
towards
their
saluation
Christ
our
Lord
did
also
discouer
the
value
,
and
fruite
of
Patience
in
this
,
that
when
he
would
vouchsaffe
any
great
vnusual
benefits
to
any
,
he
first
disposed
and
prepared
them
,
by
the
exercise
of
Patience
.
He
was
pleased
Matt.
15.
to
feed
foure
thousand
men
with
seauen
loaues
of
bread
;
and
before
he
would
impart
this
benefit
to
them
,
he
made
them
stay
three
daies
,
in
the
patient
sufferance
of
hunger
,
&
the
paines
of
being
in
a
desert
;
and
continuing
to
heare
his
diuine
word
.
He
was
pleased
to
feed
fiue
thousand
men
with
fiue
loaues
of
bread
;
and
before
he
would
allow
them
this
Regalo
,
he
made
them
stay
till
towards
might
;
when
his
disciples
sayd
,
Lord
the
houre
of
eating
is
come
,
and
gone
;
let
these
troupes
diuide
themselues
amongst
these
neighbouring
villages
,
that
so
they
may
haue
meanes
to
eate
.
When
already
they
had
exercised
their
Patience
,
by
suffering
hunger
,
he
vouchsaffed
to
shew
them
so
great
a
mercy
as
it
was
,
to
refresh
them
with
a
plentifull
and
sweet
food
;
whereby
their
bodies
were
sustained
;
and
he
also
made
faith
and
confidence
encrease
in
their
soules
.
So
saith
Saint
Chrysostome
.
Those
troupes
of
people
declared
their
faith
by
suffering
hunger
,
and
expecting
till
the
euening
.
In
this
sorte
doth
God
impart
illustrious
fauours
,
to
such
as
conserue
,
and
exercise
Patience
,
in
their
aduersities
and
troubles
:
&
to
whom
he
is
pleased
to
vouchsaffe
particular
fauours
&
mercies
,
he
sends
crosses
and
tribulations
,
that
so
exercising
Patience
therein
,
they
may
grow
more
capable
,
and
be
more
worthy
of
the
especiall
gifts
and
graces
,
which
he
will
impart
.
So
saith
Saint
Isidorus
.
Then
are
the
eyes
of
our
Lord
behoulding
iust
persons
with
greater
piety
and
mercy
,
when
they
are
afflicted
,
and
persecuted
by
the
wicked
;
and
then
doth
he
prouide
greater
blessings
for
them
and
more
eminent
rewards
of
glory
,
when
once
they
are
tried
by
some
tribulation
which
they
suffer
with
Patience
.
Let
not
therefore
any
man
conceiue
,
that
when
he
is
afflicted
,
he
is
forgotten
by
Almighty
God
;
nor
that
he
hath
lost
the
vertue
,
and
grace
he
had
,
when
he
is
abased
,
and
persecuted
by
men
.
Let
him
not
permit
the
diuell
to
deceiue
him
,
who
would
faine
perswade
him
to
this
errour
:
but
let
him
be
very
confident
,
that
God
hath
then
a
more
particular
care
of
him
;
and
loues
him
more
,
and
comunicates
more
gifts
,
&
more
singular
fauours
to
him
;
and
that
then
he
growes
vp
more
in
vertue
,
&
augments
his
merits
both
of
grace
and
glory
.
Thus
saith
Saint
Chrysostome
.
Let
vs
not
conceiue
it
to
be
a
signe
,
as
if
God
did
forsake
,
or
forget
,
or
esteem
vs
little
,
because
he
sends
vs
aduersities
,
or
troubles
;
but
rather
let
vs
hould
it
for
a
most
certaine
token
,
that
he
hath
particular
care
of
vs
;
and
that
then
he
is
to
shew
vs
greater
mercies
,
when
he
afflicts
and
tries
vs
.
For
if
we
haue
committed
many
and
very
grieuous
sinnes
;
wee
may
free
our
selues
from
them
by
Patience
,
and
thanksgiuing
in
tribulation
which
grows
from
a
contrite
heart
.
And
supposing
,
that
we
should
not
be
liable
to
those
many
grieuous
sinnes
;
yet
by
suffering
tribulation
with
a
thankefull
minde
,
we
shall
obtaine
most
abundant
grace
at
the
hand
of
God
.
For
so
good
he
is
,
&
so
liberall
in
doing
vs
good
,
that
when
he
sends
vs
any
aduersity
,
he
giues
vs
matter
to
exercise
more
vertue
;
that
he
may
shew
vs
more
mercy
.
This
is
deliuered
to
vs
by
Saint
Chrysostome
.
And
this
so
excellent
,
and
admirable
effect
of
Patience
,
which
is
exercised
in
tribulations
,
Christ
our
Lord
declared
,
when
he
said
,
Io.
15.
I
am
the
true
vine
.
For
as
much
as
concernes
the
nature
of
man
,
which
I
haue
taken
,
I
resemble
some
very
fruitfull
and
perfect
vine
,
which
yeelds
most
excellent
fruite
.
My
celestiall
father
is
the
husband
man
;
it
is
he
who
planted
this
vine
of
my
humanity
,
and
who
cultiuates
the
same
;
he
it
is
who
made
mee
man
,
and
who
placed
in
mee
the
immense
fullnes
of
grace
and
glory
,
which
I
haue
;
&
he
who
workes
all
that
fruite
in
mee
,
which
either
I
doe
,
or
shall
herafter
yeeld
.
Euery
branch
;
that
is
euery
man
,
who
being
vnited
to
me
by
faith
,
shall
not
yet
yeeld
the
fruite
of
a
good
life
,
my
father
will
cut
off
from
me
;
either
whilest
he
is
to
liue
,
by
letting
him
fall
into
errours
,
whereby
he
will
loose
his
faith
;
or
els
when
he
comes
to
dy
,
by
despoyling
him
of
those
supernaturall
giftes
(
through
which
he
was
once
vnited
to
mee
)
and
also
of
power
to
doe
penance
,
and
so
to
be
saued
.
And
euery
branch
;
that
is
to
say
euery
true
faithfull
man
,
who
is
vnited
to
mee
through
faith
quickened
by
charity
,
who
shall
produce
the
fruit
of
good
works
,
my
father
will
purge
by
celestial
doctrine
,
and
by
inspirations
,
and
interiour
gifts
,
and
by
aduersities
also
and
tribulations
;
that
suffering
them
with
Patience
,
and
charity
,
he
may
yeeld
both
faire
,
and
most
abundant
fruite
of
holy
actions
,
&
most
pleasing
to
God
,
and
full
of
profit
to
soules
;
which
shall
deserue
most
pretious
gifts
of
grace
,
&
be
crowned
with
that
most
sublime
reward
of
eternall
glory
.
THE
XIIII
.
CHAPTER
.
Of
the
meanes
,
whereby
the
vertue
of
Patience
may
be
obtained
;
which
is
,
that
wee
be
watchfull
to
consider
the
fruite
thereof
,
and
the
examples
whereby
wee
haue
been
taught
it
by
Christ
our
Lord
.
NOt
only
did
Christ
our
Lord
instruct
vs
by
his
example
,
concerning
the
necessity
,
which
wee
haue
of
Patience
,
and
the
effects
and
merits
thereof
;
but
he
also
taught
vs
the
meanes
,
wherby
wee
are
to
obtaine
it
;
and
of
this
wee
are
going
now
to
speake
.
And
because
wee
treated
thereof
abundantly
in
another
booke
,
we
will
heer
content
our selues
,
to
declare
briefly
some
examples
,
whereby
Christ
our
Lord
hath
instructed
vs
.
The
first
meanes
towardes
the
receiuing
and
suffering
with
Patience
,
all
the
euills
of
punishment
,
which
may
happen
to
vs
in
this
life
,
is
that
we
be
prepared
and
armed
with
the
particular
knowledge
and
consideration
thereof
:
It
would
not
faile
to
be
matter
of
most
grieuous
affliction
&
paine
to
the
disciples
of
Christ
our
Lord
,
&
(
euen
the
greatest
which
they
euer
felt
in
this
world
)
that
their
Master
must
suffer
such
a
death
;
&
therfore
our
most
blessed
Lord
did
arme
them
for
it
long
before
,
announcing
his
Passion
to
them
many
times
.
At
the
first
,
he
tould
them
of
it
thus
,
in
couert
termes
;
Io.
2
dissolus
this
Temple
,
and
I
will
build
it
againe
in
three
dayes
and
Io.
3.
As
Moyses
lifted
vp
the
serpent
in
the
the
desere
,
so
must
the
sonne
of
man
be
raised
up
on
high
.
After
this
he
spake
of
it
in
a
more
distinct
and
cleer
manner
saying
once
,
Matt.
16.
I
must
goe
to
Ierusalem
to
suffer
and
dy
;
and
another
time
,
Matt.
20.
Luc.
18.
Behould
wee
ascend
to
Ierusalem
,
and
the
sonne
of
man
is
to
be
deliuered
ouer
to
the
Gentiles
,
and
he
is
to
be
scorned
,
and
scourged
,
and
spit
vpon
,
and
crucified
.
In
this
manner
did
he
giue
them
notice
of
his
Passion
,
a
long
time
before
,
that
so
they
might
be
prouided
,
and
prepared
to
endure
it
;
and
that
,
when
it
should
be
present
to
them
,
they
might
not
be
scandalized
,
nor
troubled
,
nor
dismaied
thereby
;
but
might
endure
it
with
Patience
.
So
saith
Saint
Hierome
.
Our
Lord
spake
often
of
his
Passion
to
his
disciples
;
prouiding
them
against
the
temptation
,
to
the
end
that
they
might
not
be
scandalized
,
when
the
persecution
should
arriue
,
and
should
see
the
ignominy
of
the
Crosse
.
He
also
aduertised
them
a
long
time
before
,
Matt.
23.
Luc.
21.
of
the
paine
and
persecutions
,
and
torments
,
and
death
,
which
them selues
were
to
suffer
in
their
owne
persons
,
for
preaching
that
Ghospell
,
which
they
were
to
carry
,
throughout
the
world
.
For
thus
he
said
.
You
shall
be
persecuted
,
and
vexed
,
and
brought
before
Iudges
;
who
in
respect
of
mee
,
will
torment
,
and
sake
your
liues
from
you
.
Hauing
prepared
them
with
the
notice
of
these
miseries
,
which
were
to
grow
vpon
them
,
he
made
them
knowe
,
that
Patience
was
the
remedy
which
they
must
procure
,
to
the
end
that
by
those
crosses
,
they
might
receiue
no
hurt
,
but
rather
incomparable
benefit
.
And
he
said
thus
to
them
.
One
haire
of
your
heads
shal
not
perish
;
and
in
Patience
you
shall
possesse
your
soules
Which
was
as
if
he
had
said
;
Although
you
may
haue
many
enemies
,
and
powerfull
opposits
;
yet
shall
you
be
so
assisted
&
defended
by
Almighty
God
,
who
takes
most
particular
care
of
you
,
that
you
shall
not
receiue
the
least
hurt
thereby
;
and
by
the
Patience
which
you
shall
haue
in
your
tribulations
,
(
wherby
in
expectation
of
celestiall
benedictions
,
you
shall
remaine
firme
and
constant
in
my
seruice
,
to
the
very
end
)
you
shall
conserue
and
securely
possesse
the
safty
,
and
spirituall
life
of
your
soules
;
till
you
carry
them
to
the
glory
of
heauen
.
This
is
the
first
remedy
,
which
must
be
vsed
,
for
suffering
the
miseries
of
this
life
with
Patience
;
namly
that
euery
man
in
his
owne
heart
reuolue
,
and
consider
with
attention
,
what
miseries
and
aduersities
may
happen
to
him
in
this
life
;
whether
they
be
sicknes
,
pouerty
,
iniuries
offered
by
men
,
temptations
of
diuells
;
or
else
troubles
and
difficulties
in
any
bodies
particular
office
,
or
state
.
And
let
him
perswade
himselfe
,
that
if
they
come
vpon
him
,
they
shal
come
ordained
by
Almighty
God
,
and
for
the
good
of
his
soule
;
yea
and
that
it
is
greatly
fit
for
his
saluation
,
that
they
come
vpon
him
.
For
they
are
meanes
,
where
by
Almighty
God
doth
addresse
,
and
order
his
predestination
.
And
let
him
accept
of
them
from
that
instant
,
for
that
very
time
when
they
may
chance
to
come
;
and
let
him
dispose
him selfe
with
courage
to
receiue
them
willingly
,
and
with
thankesgiuing
,
when
they
shall
be
sent
.
For
a
man
being
thus
prouided
and
prepared
,
will
,
receiue
and
suffer
them
with
more
Patience
,
and
aduantage
of
his
soule
.
So
saith
Saint
Chrysostome
.
The
aduersity
which
comes
vpon
men
suddenly
,
and
vnexpected
;
is
wont
to
be
very
grieuous
,
and
much
felt
;
but
that
which
is
considered
before
it
comes
,
and
for
which
wee
are
ready
and
prepared
,
is
more
easily
endured
,
when
it
arriues
.
Another
meanes
for
suffering
tribulation
with
Patience
,
is
seriously
to
consider
and
ponder
the
most
happy
successe
which
they
haue
,
and
the
conclusion
which
they
make
,
when
they
carry
themselues
well
therein
;
to
the
glory
of
God
,
&
their
owne
greatest
good
.
Christ
our
Lord
gaue
this
remedy
to
his
disciples
,
for
when
he
tould
them
things
which
troubled
them
,
he
instantly
also
told
them
of
that
comfort
and
glory
,
which
was
to
follow
vpon
that
paine
.
When
he
tould
them
sometimes
,
that
the
sonne
of
man
was
to
suffer
,
Matt.
16.
and
20.
and
be
crucified
in
Hierusalem
,
he
instantly
also
added
that
most
glorious
end
of
his
Passion
,
and
death
,
by
saying
;
And
the
third
day
,
he
shall
rise
againe
.
And
when
he
said
thus
in
the
garden
,
Mat.
26.
you
all
shall
suffer
scandall
this
night
,
vpon
my
occasion
,
he
added
immediatly
after
,
But
when
I
shall
be
risen
from
the
dead
,
I
will
goe
to
Galile
before
you
.
As
if
he
should
haue
said
,
neither
will
I
remaine
in
death
,
nor
shall
you
perish
in
that
scandall
;
for
I
will
rise
from
the
dead
,
&
you
being
free
from
all
danger
shall
follow
mee
.
And
Matt.
13.
Luc
21.
hauing
announced
the
extreme
persecutions
,
&
tribulations
,
which
they
were
to
suffer
for
preaching
the
Ghospel
,
he
tels
them
withall
,
of
the
admirable
fruite
which
was
to
grow
to
them
thereby
,
namely
the
very
preaching
it selfe
of
the
Ghospell
,
ouer
the
whole
earth
;
and
that
it
should
be
beleeued
,
and
receiued
by
all
the
nations
of
the
world
.
It
would
seem
,
that
from
such
impediments
of
persecution
,
and
death
of
the
preachers
themselues
,
it
might
follow
that
they
should
not
be
able
to
preach
the
Ghospell
,
nor
perswade
any
body
to
imbrace
it
;
and
yet
wee
see
,
he
saith
,
that
so
great
fruit
would
follow
,
that
it
should
be
preached
,
and
receiued
ouer
the
whole
world
;
and
that
all
nations
were
to
be
saued
by
their
faith
in
it
,
&
their
obedience
to
it
.
This
is
that
which
wee
are
to
consider
,
and
ponder
in
our
tribulation
,
namely
the
admirable
fruite
,
and
glorious
end
,
to
which
we
arriue
thereby
,
and
in
contemplation
hereof
,
wee
must
animate
our selues
to
suffer
,
not
only
with
Patience
,
but
euen
with
ioy
.
So
saith
the
blessed
Saint
Marke
the
Ermite
.
When
you
shall
be
vexed
,
and
shall
haue
receiued
some
temporall
losse
,
or
some
affront
,
and
dishonour
,
doe
not
looke
onely
vpon
the
present
ill
,
but
cast
also
your
eye
vpon
those
diuine
fauours
of
grace
,
and
glory
,
which
hereafter
you
are
to
receiue
for
that
ill
;
&
you
will
certainly
finde
that
you
shall
gather
abundant
fruit
from
tribulation
;
and
that
he
who
persecutes
you
,
will
proue
the
Author
of
great
benedictions
to
you
both
in
this
life
&
the
next
.
This
also
is
aduised
by
Ecclesiasticus
c.
u.
saying
.
In
the
daies
of
thy
prosperity
,
remember
thy
misery
;
and
in
those
of
thy
misery
,
call
thy
prosperity
to
minde
;
for
an
easy
thing
it
is
,
for
God
to
giue
euery
one
his
paiment
,
&
reward
,
according
to
his
workes
,
in
the
houre
of
his
death
.
His
meaning
is
this
,
as
Saint
Gregory
declares
;
In
the
time
when
thou
hast
either
temporall
or
spiritual
prosperity
,
remember
the
afflictions
which
may
happen
to
thee
,
either
in
body
or
soule
:
that
so
thy
prosperity
may
not
make
thee
proud
,
but
that
thou
mayest
be
conserued
in
humility
.
And
so
also
,
in
the
time
of
thy
aduersity
,
whether
it
be
spirituall
or
temporall
,
remember
the
blessings
of
grace
,
and
diuine
consolations
,
which
thou
hast
enioyed
at
other
times
;
and
those
also
which
afterward
thou
maiest
receiue
:
that
so
thou
be
not
dismaied
,
nor
ouercome
with
sorrow
,
but
maiest
suffer
all
kinde
of
affliction
,
with
Patience
,
and
courage
.
By
this
consideration
,
doth
S.
Paule
animate
vs
,
to
endure
all
the
tribulations
,
and
aduersities
of
this
life
,
with
contentment
and
strength
of
minde
;
saying
thus
;
1.
Cor.
4.
All
the
trouble
and
tribulation
of
this
life
,
how
long
soeuer
it
may
be
accounted
to
last
,
doth
yet
passe
away
euen
in
a
moment
;
and
is
but
light
how
heauy
soeuer
it
may
seem
;
and
(
as
a
meritorious
cause
,
which
is
grounded
and
rises
from
the
grace
of
Christ
our
Lord
,
)
it
workes
in
vs
an
inestimable
and
most
sublime
waight
of
glory
,
beyond
all
that
which
can
be
expressed
,
or
euen
conceiued
;
and
which
is
not
to
be
temporall
,
but
eternall
.
THE
XV.
CHAPTER
.
Of
other
meanes
whereby
wee
are
to
obtaine
,
and
conserue
the
vertue
of
Patience
,
namely
to
consider
our
sinnes
,
and
to
resort
to
Almighty
God
,
for
the
remedy
thereof
.
ANother
,
meanes
which
wee
must
vse
for
the
conseruing
of
Patience
in
aduersity
,
is
to
consider
the
many
sinnes
which
wee
haue
committed
in
this
life
;
and
how
iustly
we
deserue
the
aduersity
,
which
we
suffer
for
the
same
,
and
indeed
all
these
,
which
may
possibly
come
vpon
vs
in
this
world
;
and
to
moue
our selues
to
compunction
for
the
same
,
and
euen
to
a
desire
,
that
wee
may
be
punished
for
them
by
Almighty
God
,
with
mercy
in
this
life
.
Christ
our
Lord
himselfe
,
admonished
vs
of
this
meanes
,
in
the
holy
Ghospel
.
There
fell
a
Tower
neer
the
Poole
of
Siloe
,
by
the
Citty
of
Ierusalem
,
which
killed
eighteene
persons
;
Luc.
13.
and
againe
after
this
,
some
of
the
Galileans
,
being
in
oblation
of
the
Sacrifice
of
certaine
beasts
,
Pilate
sent
out
a
squadron
of
soldiers
who
killed
them
,
and
so
mingled
their
blood
with
the
blood
of
the
beasts
which
they
had
sacrificed
.
Now
when
they
related
this
accident
to
Christ
our
Lord
,
he
said
thus
to
them
.
Doe
not
conceiue
,
that
those
Galileans
were
the
greatest
sinners
of
all
the
Galileans
,
in
regard
that
this
aduersity
of
suddene
death
came
thus
vpon
them
;
for
it
is
not
so
:
but
I
say
to
you
,
that
if
you
doe
not
penance
,
you
all
shall
perish
.
And
so
also
doe
not
thinke
that
those
eighteene
men
vpon
whom
the
tower
of
Siloe
fell
,
were
the
wickedst
men
who
d'welt
in
Ierusalem
;
for
it
is
not
so
,
but
I
declare
to
you
,
that
if
you
doe
not
penance
you
all
shall
perish
.
By
these
diuine
speeches
,
Christ
our
Lord
taught
vs
two
thinges
.
The
one
,
that
those
sad
accidents
,
and
deaths
,
which
men
call
disastrous
;
doe
many
time
come
,
in
the
way
of
punishment
for
sinne
;
but
yet
,
that
God
doth
not
alwaies
punish
sinners
in
this
life
,
with
such
calamities
as
these
;
but
he
doth
often
,
either
reserue
them
for
their
punishment
in
the
other
world
,
or
els
expect
that
they
should
voluntarily
doe
penance
,
and
so
inflict
some
punishment
vpon
themselues
in
this
life
.
And
secondly
,
he
lets
vs
knowe
,
that
when
such
afflictions
and
tribulations
happen
to
others
,
we
must
be
sure
to
enter
into
our
owne
soules
,
and
to
consider
the
sinnes
which
wee
haue
committed
,
and
how
iustly
wee
merit
all
kinde
of
punishment
for
them
;
&
we
must
conceiue
in
our
hearts
,
a
great
repentance
and
grief
,
for
hauing
committed
them
;
&
in
penance
,
and
satisfaction
for
the
same
,
we
must
punish
and
mortify
our
bodies
,
with
penall
workes
;
and
be
willing
to
accept
whatsoeuer
troubles
or
tribulations
,
it
may
please
God
to
send
vs
.
A
most
certaine
truth
it
is
,
that
God
sends
aduersity
to
his
true
,
and
faithfull
seruants
(
who
yet
haue
sinned
in
this
life
)
to
the
end
that
suffering
them
with
Patience
,
they
may
discharge
,
and
satisfy
for
those
sinnes
,
which
they
haue
committed
.
As
that
holy
Virgin
Sara
confessed
,
saying
,
Iob.
3.
Blessed
be
thou
ô
God
of
our
fathers
;
for
that
when
thou
art
offended
with
vs
,
and
doest
send
vs
troubles
and
afflictions
,
it
is
then
,
that
thou
shewest
great
mercy
towards
vs
;
For
in
the
time
of
tribulation
,
wherby
thou
punishest
,
thou
pardonest
the
sinnes
of
them
who
inuoke
thy
name
with
a
true
heart
.
Thus
doth
God
proceed
with
man
,
by
meanes
of
tribulation
.
Some
who
are
in
sinne
,
he
induces
by
this
meanes
to
do
penance
,
wherby
they
grow
to
be
free
from
the
offences
,
into
which
they
had
fallen
;
and
such
as
are
in
the
state
of
grace
,
he
occasions
to
exercise
Patience
,
whereby
he
deliuers
them
from
those
penalties
,
which
they
had
incurred
for
their
former
sinnes
.
And
so
great
care
hath
God
,
to
shew
this
mercy
to
this
elect
,
that
he
permits
other
men
,
either
through
ignorance
,
or
malice
,
to
afflict
and
trouble
them
;
and
by
occasion
,
and
vnder
the
title
of
faults
which
they
haue
not
committed
,
in
the
sight
of
God
.
Iust
as
the
brethren
of
Ioseph
,
Exod.
1.
who
finding
themselues
to
be
afflicted
,
and
punished
in
Aegypt
,
for
the
supposed
offence
of
being
spies
,
which
they
had
not
committed
;
came
to
know
that
indeed
God
sent
them
that
punishment
,
for
the
sinne
which
they
had
committed
,
in
selling
their
brother
.
And
so
they
confessed
it
saying
.
This
punishment
is
iustly
inflicted
on
vs
;
for
wee
haue
sinned
against
our
brother
;
and
this
trouble
is
come
vpon
vs
for
that
sinne
.
Saint
Esrem
relateth
of
himselfe
that
being
a
boy
and
going
into
the
fields
to
play
,
he
hunted
a
calfe
of
another
mans
so
hard
;
and
threw
so
many
stones
at
it
,
as
that
he
killed
it
at
length
.
And
walking
about
a
moneth
after
,
through
that
field
againe
,
he
fell
out
to
take
him
rest
amongst
some
shepheards
,
who
were
looking
to
their
flockes
;
a
parte
of
which
flocke
was
wanting
that
night
,
for
it
had
bene
scattered
by
some
rauenous
beasts
.
The
Lords
of
the
flocke
,
thought
they
had
been
theeues
,
who
did
that
hurt
,
&
that
Efrem
was
some
Camerade
of
theirs
.
They
accuse
him
,
and
take
him
for
a
theefe
.
And
whilest
he
was
in
prison
and
much
afflicted
,
an
Angell
appeared
to
him
in
his
sleepe
,
demaunding
the
cause
of
his
being
there
.
He
answered
,
that
he
had
been
taken
,
without
any
fault
of
his
.
Then
the
Angell
said
;
I
know
well
that
thou
art
free
from
any
fault
in
this
;
but
remember
that
thou
madest
a
fault
not
long
agoe
,
in
killing
the
calfe
of
that
poore
man
;
and
so
thou
wilt
see
,
that
now
thou
art
iustly
taken
&
made
prisoner
in
the
part
of
God
;
and
that
his
iudgments
are
very
iust
.
He
also
tould
him
of
others
,
who
were
there
imprisoned
,
for
offences
which
indeed
they
had
not
committed
;
but
they
had
committed
other
sinnes
,
in
regard
whereof
God
sent
them
that
punishment
,
which
they
had
iustly
deserued
.
The
Angell
vanished
;
&
Efrem
speaking
after
with
those
prisoners
,
found
that
to
be
true
which
the
Angell
had
told
him
;
and
they
were
executed
for
offences
which
they
had
not
committed
;
and
satisfied
thus
for
others
,
which
had
been
committed
by
them
.
These
are
the
iust
iudgments
of
God
,
whereby
he
gouernes
the
world
,
and
addresses
his
elect
to
the
end
of
eternall
happines
,
for
which
he
chose
them
.
And
from
hence
wee
must
learne
,
to
thinke
holily
of
God
,
in
all
those
tribulations
,
and
aduersities
,
which
he
may
send
vs
in
this
life
:
confessing
and
acknowledging
that
he
proceedes
most
iustly
with
vs
;
because
for
our
sinnes
wee
deserue
those
punishments
which
he
sends
vs
,
yea
and
others
which
are
incomparably
greater
.
And
we
must
know
&
confesse
moreouer
,
that
herein
he
shewes
vs
an
vnspeakable
kinde
of
mercy
;
for
as
much
as
by
the
light
,
and
short
punishments
of
this
life
,
he
not
onely
deliuers
vs
from
those
fierce
paines
of
Purgatory
,
but
also
from
the
eternall
torments
of
Hell
.
Thus
did
that
holy
Tobias
proceed
in
the
tribulations
,
which
God
sent
him
;
for
he
receiued
them
willingly
for
his
sinnes
;
and
acknowledged
that
the
punishment
was
very
iust
,
&
that
he
deserued
both
that
,
&
a
farre
greater
.
And
he
acknowledged
that
God
shewed
him
a
soueraigne
kind
of
mercy
,
for
as
much
as
he
punished
him
that
so
he
might
deliuer
him
both
from
the
faults
,
and
from
the
penalties
,
also
which
he
had
incurred
thereby
;
so
to
saue
him
in
the
end
.
This
doth
he
confesse
by
saying
thus
,
Tob.
3.
Iust
art
thou
,
ô
Lord
,
and
all
thy
iudgments
are
very
iust
;
for
if
we
haue
been
deliuered
into
the
hands
of
our
enemies
,
to
be
made
captiues
and
to
be
destroyed
and
killed
by
them
,
and
to
become
the
very
scorne
of
all
nations
,
it
is
because
we
haue
sinned
against
thee
,
in
not
keeping
thy
comaundments
,
nor
conuersing
with
a
pure
hart
in
thy
presence
.
And
further
,
confessing
the
great
mercy
wherewith
God
punished
them
for
their
sinnes
,
he
saith
,
Tob.
13.
Our
Lord
punishes
vs
for
our
sinnes
,
and
the
same
Lord
shall
saue
vs
for
his
mercies
sake
.
After
this
manner
,
by
the
knowledge
of
our
sinnes
,
and
of
the
punishment
which
we
deserue
for
the
same
,
wee
are
to
embrace
all
those
aduersities
which
God
may
send
vs
in
this
life
,
with
much
Patience
,
yea
and
wee
must
praise
,
and
thanke
him
for
them
.
Another
,
and
a
very
efficacious
meanes
,
whereby
wee
must
helpe
our selues
to
suffer
all
tribulation
with
Patience
,
is
instantly
to
resort
to
Almighty
God
in
any
affliction
of
ours
,
whether
it
be
great
or
small
;
beseeching
him
,
with
our
whole
hearts
,
that
he
will
giue
vs
strength
to
beare
it
well
;
and
to
conforme
our selues
entirely
to
his
most
holy
will
.
And
although
it
be
lawfull
to
desire
of
God
,
that
he
will
take
the
tribulation
from
vs
,
(
so
that
yet
wee
still
resigne
our selues
to
his
good
pleasure
,
that
so
he
may
doe
that
which
shall
most
import
our
saluation
:
)
yet
this
is
not
necessary
;
but
our
better
suite
is
to
be
,
that
he
will
helpe
vs
to
endure
it
,
and
ouercome
it
.
When
Saint
Peter
,
with
the
leaue
of
Christ
our
Lord
,
began
to
walke
vpon
the
water
,
Matt.
14.
and
when
he
found
,
that
a
stiffe
winde
was
risen
,
he
grew
troubled
,
and
distrustfull
;
and
began
to
sincke
;
and
our
Lord
to
deliuer
him
out
of
that
great
danger
of
drowing
,
did
not
cause
the
winde
to
cease
(
as
Saint
Iohn
Chrysostome
obserues
)
but
stretched
forth
his
hand
,
and
laid
hold
on
him
therewith
;
and
made
him
walke
vpon
the
water
,
till
he
brought
him
backe
to
the
ship
.
Now
this
must
wee
beg
of
God
in
our
troubles
,
namly
that
he
will
take
vs
by
the
hand
,
and
that
he
will
vouchsaffe
vs
his
helpe
and
fauour
;
that
so
our
afflictions
may
doe
vs
no
hurt
;
but
that
suffering
them
with
Patience
,
they
may
yeeld
great
fruite
to
our
soules
,
and
be
of
much
glory
to
Almighty
God
.
This
is
that
which
Dauid
Psal
117.
begged
of
God
in
his
tribulations
;
and
that
which
he
desired
and
begged
,
he
also
obtained
,
as
himselfe
affirmed
saying
.
In
my
tribulation
I
called
vpon
my
Lord
and
my
God
,
and
cryed
out
to
him
in
the
most
internall
part
of
my
heart
:
and
he
,
of
his
infinite
mercy
,
heard
my
voice
from
that
holy
temple
of
his
,
which
is
heauen
:
and
he
accepted
my
prayer
,
and
imparted
that
fauour
which
I
desired
.
Besides
these
meanes
,
there
is
yet
another
,
which
is
very
effectuall
,
towards
the
obtaining
of
Patience
,
and
it
is
to
ponder
profoundly
well
,
how
all
the
contradictions
and
punishments
which
happen
to
vs
in
this
life
,
be
ordained
by
the
prouidence
of
God
,
and
are
sent
vs
by
his
holy
hand
,
for
our
good
.
And
(
besides
those
other
testimonies
,
whereby
wee
haue
proued
this
truth
elswhere
)
Christ
our
Lord
declared
it
in
his
holy
Ghospell
saying
thus
.
Matt.
10.
Feare
not
,
for
all
the
haires
of
your
heads
are
numbred
.
The
meaninge
is
,
that
God
hath
so
particular
care
,
and
prouidence
ouer
you
,
that
he
hath
counted
euen
all
the
haires
of
your
heads
,
and
knowes
the
number
of
them
all
;
and
there
is
nothing
done
,
euen
concerning
any
of
them
,
which
he
ordaines
not
,
for
the
good
of
that
man
,
who
puts
his
confidence
in
him
.
Now
if
Almighty
God
conserue
the
memory
and
care
of
so
light
and
triuiall
thinges
,
as
are
the
haires
of
our
head
(
which
serue
but
for
the
ornament
of
men
,
and
which
although
they
be
cut
off
,
doe
not
put
the
parties
to
any
paine
,
)
and
this
so
fa●…e
,
as
that
euen
one
of
them
must
not
be
cut
,
or
lost
,
without
his
pleasure
;
how
much
more
tender
care
will
he
take
of
the
life
,
and
saluation
of
that
man
,
who
puts
his
trust
in
him
;
and
of
all
those
principall
thinges
,
which
belong
to
him
,
that
he
may
conserue
,
and
cherish
,
and
ordaine
them
for
the
good
of
his
soule
;
and
not
permit
that
he
be
put
to
the
least
preiudice
without
his
pleasure
;
and
that
whatsoeuer
happens
to
him
,
in
order
to
his
temporall
affaires
,
may
proue
to
the
good
and
remedy
of
his
soule
;
and
for
the
doing
all
that
which
is
fit
for
the
carrying
him
on
,
to
the
end
of
eternall
felicity
,
for
which
he
was
created
.
This
is
the
nature
of
Patience
,
whereof
wee
haue
spoken
;
and
these
are
the
most
excellent
effects
,
and
frui●s
thereof
.
These
are
the
meanes
,
whereby
it
is
to
be
obtained
,
and
these
are
the
examples
,
whereby
wee
haue
been
taught
it
by
Christ
our
Lord
.
Let
vs
therfore
procure
to
obtaine
it
,
and
moreouer
to
exercise
it
towards
the
whole
world
;
complying
with
that
which
the
Apostle
saith
thus
to
Timothy
:
ep.
1.
c.
6.
Embrace
,
and
exercise
Patience
diligently
.
And
that
also
,
which
he
saith
to
the
Thessal
.
ep.
1.
c.
5.
be
patient
,
and
suffer
at
the
hands
of
all
men
.
By
this
most
pretious
vertue
of
Patience
,
wee
shall
obtaine
,
and
conserue
all
the
gifts
of
God
,
and
become
superiours
to
all
our
enemies
.
For
Patience
will
fortify
vs
in
the
confession
of
our
Faith
,
against
tirants
;
giuing
vs
strength
to
endure
all
their
torments
▪
Patience
conserues
the
supernaturall
loue
of
God
,
and
of
our
neighbour
;
for
it
giues
vs
courage
to
resist
all
those
thinges
which
are
contrary
to
charity
.
Patience
conserues
and
giues
perfection
to
wisedome
;
taking
away
those
impediments
of
anger
,
and
sorrow
,
which
obscure
the
soule
.
Patience
builds
vp
abstinence
,
and
temperance
;
inabling
a
man
to
suffer
hunger
,
and
thirst
,
and
to
bring
sensual
appetites
into
subiection
.
Patience
defends
iustice
,
encreases
humility
,
conserues
peace
,
and
purity
of
heart
;
and
giues
perseuerance
in
all
vertue
.
And
so
it
fulfilles
that
,
whereof
Saint
Iames
chap.
1.
saith
,
that
it
makes
the
worke
perfect
;
because
it
giues
perfection
,
and
completenes
to
all
the
vertues
.
O
blessed
Patience
;
happy
are
they
who
possesse
thee
.
For
thou
art
the
vertue
,
which
giuest
perseuerance
in
all
good
things
;
and
which
openest
the
way
to
heauen
,
where
wee
may
see
with
perfect
charity
,
&
delight
with
supreme
loue
,
in
that
infinite
beauty
of
God
;
and
possesse
for
euer
those
giftes
of
glory
,
which
he
hath
prouided
for
them
who
continue
in
his
seruice
,
according
to
that
which
our
Lord
promised
saying
;
He
who
perseuers
to
the
end
,
shall
be
saued
.
FINIS
.